ingraffea.jpg Cornell University Professors Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea made waves in April 2011 when they unveiled what is now known simply as the "Cornell Study." Published in a peer-reviewed letter in the academic journal Climatic Change Letters, the study revealed that, contrary to the never-ending mythology promulgated by the gas
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DeSmogBlog: Canadian Embassy Coaches Diplomats To Promote Tar Sands, Overstate Environmental Protection Efforts
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The Canadian government, on the provincial and federal level, needs to tag team on tar sands public relations, according to an internal Canadian Embassy document reported on by …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Gas Industry Front Group Called Out By RFK Jr Attempts To Spin Facts Yet Again
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The oil and gas industry has a long history of resisting public accountability and protective standards, and generally avoiding tough questions about its practices and attacking its cr…
Continue readingMore on the Flogs Issue
BCL has more on the M THIRTY enviro flogs issue.Also, I’ve heard that PB is removing identified flogs.
Continue readingFunding Anti-Green Sock Puppets
Not all unions are in McGuinty’s pocket. The Ontario Power Workers’ Union (UPW) has bankrolled a campaign agaisnt McGuinty fighting the Green Energy Act.More and more, marketing companies are using social media to promote their clients. UPW is pushing …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers "Secret Sins" Exposed In Bloomberg News Investigation
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Bloomberg has released a whopping 21-page investigative and historical essay on the many crimes of the infamous Koch Brothers, their company Koch Industries and its …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The role of public relations in the military
Canada’s top military figure, Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk has gotten media attention recently since it was revealed that he spent over a million dollars on government aircraft to fly to such things as “Military Appreciation Nights” at NH…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: "Haynesville" Shale Gas Industry Documentary Exposed on AlterNet
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This weekend, AlterNet published a long investigative piece that I wrote on a documentary that has made the rounds at film festivals and conferences around the country.
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Oxymoronic ‘Ethical Oil’ Meets Irony
I hate promoting the severely flawed concept of ‘ethical oil’, so much so that I don’t even like using the phrase as it spreads the meme. Still, with the Keystone XL pipeline in the news these days, here’s a fact worth punting your way.The toxic, corro…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Natural Gas Media and Stakeholder Relations Professionals to Head to Houston
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On October 31 and November 1, Houston will be abuzz with natural gas industry communications professionals arrivin…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Battle for Fracking Public Perception Lost, Says Gas Industry Insider
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The gas industry has not done itself any favors by downplaying the risks associated with fracking, something the industry is apparently just realizing. Labeling affected…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Halliburton CEO Instructs Underling To Sip New Fracking Fluid At Gas Industry Conference
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Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Dave Lesar touted the safety of the company’s new CleanStim fracking fluid during a keynote address at a gas industry conference in Co…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: PR Campaign Uses Gays To Clean Up Tar Sands Image
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects in human history, is having some understandable difficulties with its public image. Presenting the sands as an environmentally responsible project or merely downplaying its harm is […]
Continue readingRegarding that blurb on the bottom of Toronto’s press releases
The Goods in The Toronto Star has written up a great little post concerning the new blurb that appears at the bottom of the City of Toronto’s press releases.
I used to write press releases for a living. The new footer stinks.
The new:
Toronto is Can…
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