Promised Land Page #3

I had a really great time.

Did you?

Uh, yeah, yeah, I mean

Nothing happened, Steve.

Well, actually you did kiss me

before you threw up the first time.

Oh, it's gross.

Sorry.

I was gonna let you sleep in your car, but

you couldn't remember which one was yours.

Uh. No, I didn't drive.

Well then it's a good thing

I didn't let you sleep in your car.

Uh. Wow,

cancan I take your number, or?

Well, youyou're gonna be

around for a bit, right?

Uh

It's not that big of a town.

You'll see me again.

Okay. Still

The front door is, uh?

At the front of the house.

When you get to it,

you're gonna see a knob.

Okay.

You turn that knob

Yeah, yeah. Too early for that, I'm just

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Huh. happy birthday!

What do you mean you were burned?

Why were you using an iron?

So he asked you to do it?

No, I highly doubt it's burned off, Danny.

What did the nurse say?

Throwing hand or catching hand?

So you're gonna play this weekend?

Just five minutes.

What you mean pitching?

Danny! When did the coach

say that, that's fantastic?!

No no no, that was just Steve,

I'm at work.

Okay. Folks, if you can find your seats

please, we'll get started. Thank you.

I can't believe you went out.

We didn't get home from dinner till 9:30.

She was very cool actually,

I think you would have liked her.

I don't think you should be making

statements like that just yet.

Some of you may even

have family or friends

who have had natural gas

come to their town.

Name?

Alice.

Alice?

Was she elderly?

.. that we will be bringing

natural gas to McKinley.

How do they get the gas?

Ah! Frank, how are ya?

Listen

What is that?

Lemonade.

Is it good?

It's fantastic. It's fresh squeezed.

There's a kid selling it out there.

She's cleaning up! You want some?

No.

There are these rock deposits underground.

Deep, undermiles underground.

And they create these drills

that go down 2 or 3 miles,

and the breaking of that shale

is what actually releases the gas.

It's called Fracking.

Excuse me?

The process. It's called Fracking.

That's right. That's right.

Frank, now if you'd let me finish

please, we have a basket to

I would encourage all of

you when you go home

to Google that word and

see what you find.

Unfortunately, it's not nearly as simple

as what Supervisor Richards

has just laid out.

Frank. Frank, I'm sure we all appreciate

the point you're trying to make,

but there's no decision to be made here.

We need this.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but

uh, this thing here.

It may not be the saving

grace you all want it to be.

Now, Gerry started

this thing on by saying

Natural Gas coming here

is life saving. And it is!

It's a clean and efficient resource.

But the way we go about getting it

is some dirty business.

Franck, with all due respect,

I think you're out of your league.

And the potential for

error is just too high.

Thank you Frank.

And There are people all over the country,

who's water has been contaminated.

Okay. Frank, I have absolutely

had enough of this.

We don't have to have this conversation

here. If you wanna come down to

Goddamn it.

I'm late here, sorry. I'm sorry, uh,

I don't mean to interrupt you, Mr?

Yates.

My name is Frank Yates.

Uh, Mr. Yates, are you with a,

uh, an environmental group?

No.

No? Uh, what line of work you in, Sir?

I'm a teacher at the high school.

A teacher.

I teach science.

What about you, Mrrrrrrrr?

Okay. Yeah. Well, I deserve that.

Uh, well, Steve Butler is my name.

I'm a consultant, here, with Global.

I only caught the tail end

of what you were saying, but

you seem like someone

who's done his homework.

Could I ask you though, where

did you get your information?

Mr. Butler, you and I both know

the information I've been talking about,

is vast and detailed.

You're probably right, I'm certainly

I'm not the guy with all the answers.

Oh, well then you'd be the perfect guy for

them to send here, to deny everything.

Well look, I'm not gonna deny that this

issue has been made pretty complicated by

a few companies who've had

their fair share of incidents. But

we've been fracking in this

country for over 50 years.

This is not a new issue,

this is not a new technology.

But Global is being sued,

isn't that true, Steve?

Yeah, that's true, that's true.

Just like any other company our size

in any other industry.

And the way we handle those

law suits is we stand up to em.

Because we're not in the business

of handing out free money.

to people who make

false claims against us.

And the thingthe take away here,

is how many times we've lost.

And that's none. We've never

ever lost any ot those case.

Well, you can't lose a game

that's still being played.

Look Steve, I'm sure that

even you can admit

that Fracking is far

from a perfect process.

Perfect?

Of course not, uhm

But given the government regulations

that we have to adhere to

and all the hoops we jump through,

it's pretty close to perfect.

The only reason why natural gas is

so big right now is because it finally is

the clean alternative to these

dangerous industries like coal and oil.

If it's such an incredible

alternative why do they need a man

standing off to the side of the

room to make sure we all go for it?

Seems to me it should

be able to sell itself.

But you're not the man with

the answers. So who is?

Because I still have questions.

Well, I'd like to answer

all of those questions.

But

I'd just like everybody to keep

something in mind here.

There's no such thing as

a neutral position here.

If you're against this,

you're for coal and oil. Period.

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and so far that's a conversation

none of us wanna have.

Steve, I just came here

to point out that this issue

is a bit more complicated than it seems.

Well, yeah, I mean

you've certainly done that.

Well great.

Now I think we should take a vote.

A vote?

In a couple of weeks, when we've all had

time to think this whole thing through,

I think we should put it to a vote.

With all due respect, the people

in this town really need this.

Theythey need this. And

Quite frankly, I don't think that

anybody here is gonna be

swayed by one man. Sorry.

You're right.

These people and I came here

to say we strongly believe

this is not in the best

interest of this town.

Hey, Gerry.

Gerry, I'm sorry, these kids

have regionals coming up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Stan, sure thing,

go ahead. Uhm Well

Look Frank, this isn't everybody.

I mean, not even half of

the town is here today.

Exactly, And I think all those people

would hate to be left out

of such an important decision.

Uh, Frank

Gerry, Gerry, let's face it.

We both know that money can

lead very often to bad decisions.

Are you seeing the same numbers I have,

and with the recent figures on deposits

in this area at 150 million dollars,

let's all take some time

to think it through.

Those are the latest numbers

out of the university.

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