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January 4, 2008
The Last Winter: A Convenient Lie Meets Freddy Krueger
Tinseltown managed to cripple the nuclear power industry with the hysterical The China Syndrome, which is a large reason we are now so heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Now the same tactic is being applied to the oil and gas industry in a horror movie entitled The Last Winter. From the official synopsis:
In the Arctic tundra of Northern Alaska, an advance team working for a petroleum exploration company is engaged in a massive project to exploit the oil resources of the pristine land.
After one crewmember is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other members of the team as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear.
This creeping dread bursts open when a malevolent wind brings down a plane that approaches the station. Explosions and carnage wreak havoc on the team and all functions fail in the camp, forcing two of the members out into the cold on a desperate bid for survival. As the two journey to find help, they find themselves utterly alone in a world that is unraveling- either they are being stalked by an invisible herd of menacing phantoms, or they are going mad.
Whatever does happen to them out there… they are never heard from again.
The Last Winter will be director Larry Fessenden's "boldest, most explicit, most challenging film to date, dealing with man's insatiable quest for oil in the face of environmental revolt." Fessenden directs direct-to-video–style crapola like the almost unwatchable Wendigo. Dario Argento this guy is not, so it's not surprising he would resort to moonbattery in hopes of drawing an audience.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on tips from V the K and Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 4, 2008 7:32 AM
Comments
Dear Wingnut,
Bashing moonbats is a great pastime but it's clear that it's not a task best undertaken by far right ostriches like Van Helsing (failed moonbat slayer).
Right from paragraph 1 this post manages to completely distort what actually happened and self-servingly omit one inconvenient truth:
"Tinseltown managed to cripple the nuclear power industry with the hysterical The China Syndrome, which is a large [sic] reason we are now so heavily reliant on fossil fuels."
The truth is that barely thirteen days after the release of The China Syndrome, the potentially disastrous accident at Three Mile Island (Harrisburg) took place. This incident is what caused, unfairly in my view, the major decline in nuclear construction in the US from the 1980s onwards. The impact of the movie truly pales into insignificance compared to the real-life experience of a near catastrophic nuclear incident.
You can blame Tinseltown for a lot of things of course but the virtual freeze on civilian nuclear power in the US isn't one of them.
Posted by: Gert at January 4, 2008 8:17 AM
While some of our politicians attempt to limit oil exploration in the Artic, Canada and Russia are moving ahead with its investments. Canada is also exploring off-shore its eastern provinces.
Held up as an example for its use of biofuels, Brazil is now moving ahead with off-shore oil exploration and is expected to become a major exporting nation in the decade ahead.
Posted by: dpt at January 4, 2008 8:21 AM
Van Helsing may have gotten the timing of China Syndrome wrong, but the activities of anti-nuclear Moonbats along with their political allies in the Democratic Party effectively sank the nuclear power industry. With all of the nuclear plants operating there have been 2 notable accidents. Three Mile Island, which killed or injured no one and was only made worse by plant operators not believing what the computers were telling them and circumvented safety features. The other one was Chernobyl, a hiddeously bad Soviet era design based on a graphite core (graphite burns!). Even so, far fewer people died or were injured than predicted as recent studies have concluded. Light water reactors are very very safe - moreso now. True, theres waste to deal with but in time a way to process it to render it inert will be found - either that or it will be shipped off the Earth and launched into the Sun or maybe buried on the Moon (Space: 1999 -like scenario doesnt count since that was totally impossible).
Funny how France gets 80% of its power from nuke plants and the Moonbat brigades arent marching thru the streets of Paris demanding that Fwance shut down its nuke plants. Even some lefties have seen the light with nuclear power and are saying its a good idea - maybe they will cause others on their side to wise up.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 8:49 AM
They should remake Beneath the Planet of the Apes - loved that scene in the Church where the mutants were singing "All Creatures Great and Small, the Good Bomb that made us all !!!" LOL! I still got that stupid tune stuck in my head from the POTA marathone New Years Eve day.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 9:04 AM
First of all, more Americans have been killed by Ted Kennedy's car than by nuclear power.
The anti-nuclear hysteria of the left is largely why the American nuclear industry is so under-developed. Hollywood dutifully played its part with The China Syndrome, but the same far-left coalition of dishonest media, environmental extremists, and craven politicians that prohibits us from drilling for oil even in the god-forsaken wasteland of Alaska's north slope is to blame for the over-regulation and lawsuits that crippled the American nuclear industry. While they failed to outlaw nuclear power, they did regulate and sue it to the point of unprofitability.
Posted by: V the K at January 4, 2008 9:07 AM
Van says: prohibits us from drilling for oil even in the god-forsaken wasteland of Alaska's north slope
Don't you know it's not god-forsaken (which it really is if you've ever been there, I have) it's pristine land.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 10:07 PM
Don't you know it's not god-forsaken (which it really is if you've ever been there, I have) it's pristine land.
Hah, pristine my keister. Its tundra which is a DESERT.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at January 5, 2008 2:00 PM
