Uproar means the end of 'Fracosaurus' coloring booklet

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11196/1160490-28.stm

Uproar means the end of 'Fracosaurus' coloring booklet

Friday, July 15, 2011
By Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Fracosaurus is now extinct.

Talisman Terry, the "friendly Fracosaurus" star of a coloring book published by Talisman Energy, will no longer be around to explain the natural gas drilling process to youngsters. The Canadian company announced plans Thursday to stop distribution of the controversial children's book.

"Talisman Terry's Energy Adventure" was a 24-page booklet that explained natural gas drilling in kid-friendly fashion and could be downloaded from the Calgary-based energy company's website. It had been distributed at community fairs in northeastern Pennsylvania since 2009.

As dinosaurs do, Terry is going out with a bang. Everyone from a Massachusetts congressman to a Comedy Central star has taken aim at the Fracosaurus wearing a hard hat and a smile.

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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/391552/july-11-2011/anti-frack-attack

[GliderGuider]

1. My mama taught me to only say good about the dead. It's dead.

Good.

[hootinholler]

2. Man it was bad...

Very bad (pdf)

Even the rocks were happy. But before he died, he made it on to Colbert :D

-Hoot

[NYC_SKP]

3. Nonsense. I have proof that post-fracking environmental conditions are far BETTER than pre-frack.

Look, Rainbows!!!



:P

[CoffeeCat]

4. OMG...where do I get a copy????

That is so hilariously stupid--I just have to own a copy!

Really...a children's coloring book about fracking? Of course, we want
to plant the seed early, that fracking is a rainbow-producing, beautiful
procedure!

That is just so out there!

I really want a copy of that coloring book.

It's like finding a coloring book on the wonders of DDT, Agent Orange or Corexit.

[Kolesar]

5. The coloring book is linked at the Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pdf/201106/201106talisman_coloringbook.pdf