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 08 March 2012 10:38 GMT

The director of a new documentary that aims to show the positive impact of the US shale boom has said he was motivated by a row with the director of anti-fracking movie Gasland.

Phelim McAleer told Upstream that Josh Fox, director of the controversial documentary, tried to silence his criticism of Gasland by having a video featuring the pair removed from YouTube. (View the video here.)

“It was Josh Fox trying to bully me that motivated me to make FrackNation,” McAleer said. “He tried to censor my journalism by getting my video removed from YouTube.”

In the video, McAleer questions Fox at a lecture about how the documentary did not mention the presence of methane gas in public water supply decades before hydraulic fracturing,…

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