The Shady PR War Unleashed Against Environmentalists Who Oppose Keystone Pipeline

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/shady-pr-war-unleashed-against-environmentalists-who-oppose-keystone-pipeline

With possible Canadian oil sand pipeline profits estimated to be in the $100 billion range, it’s no surprise how low backers will go to smear opponents to win approval. A cache of secret documents prepared in May by Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm, for pipeline developer TransCanada, more than confirms the no-holds-barred mentality the oil industry will use to exploit one of the continent’s dirtiest energy sources. The documents concern the so-called Energy East pipeline, which would carry oil sands production to eastern Canada; the Keystone XL pipeline would take the same oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

“We also recommend continuing to emphasize the term 'natural resources' when possible, instead of oil sands which is perceived negatively,” said a lenghty May 2014 strategic plan, in a passage that typfied the double-speak Edelman is unfurling.

Its multiprong campaign also includes demonizing opponents, cultivating local reporters along the pipeline path, creating front groups to exaggerate support and posting online “ dark content” to create an outsized clamour asserting that the climate change-accelerating project is as warm, fuzzy and clean as a newborn's blanket.

“These documents show that the pipeline company is planning to adopt the deceitful tactics employed by the oil industry in the U.S. to attack environmental advocates,” said Travis Nichols of Greenpeace USA, one of Edelman’s and TransCanada’s targets.

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1. K&R....

[woo me with science]

2. The corporate MO: Manipulation, not representation.

Corporatists don't represent human beings or stand for values and principles.

They advertise, lie, spin, dissemble, and hire PR firms to figure out how best to manipulate human beings to maximize their profit.

It's a stark contrast:

Bernie Sanders DROPS A TRUTH BOMB Re: Keystone
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025835789

versus

Hillary Clinton refuses to say now where she stands on Keystone pipeline
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025834984

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7. why does hill need to sAY anything regarding kxl?

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3. K&R!

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4. Charlie Pierce nailed it the other day - as all of the justifications for

the building of the pipeline crumble like toilet paper in a hurricane, the pro-pipeline people are now just determined to win if only to "stick it to the tree-huggers", and nothing else.

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8. u can hear charlie pierce on tuesdays on the stephanie miller show

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9. u can hear charlie pierce on tuesdays on the stephanie miller show

not sure how this got posted twice

[Ed Suspicious]

5. These are some real "hands-on", ambitious mother fuckers who think to do this sort of thing.

Makes me understand Hiltler a little bit better.

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6. Kick and R.

What a bunch of sleazy scumbags.