Rudy Giuliani Urges More PR For Fracking Industry, Pimps "Unlimited Future"

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At a shale industry conference in Philadelphia, former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani offered up advice to drilling companies struggling with an oil price collapse and increasing public awareness of the damage that fracking can do to air, water, the climate and the economy. “And you do face a public relations problem,” Giuiliani told the gathered shale executives. “And the public relations problem that you face is that a lot of people dismiss the whole shale revolution from a standpoint of being afraid of it.”

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“The shale revolution has been phenomenal for our economy,” he said. “If it wasn't for the share resolution I don't know where we'd be. In 2012, 2.1 million jobs. Roughly 4 million jobs projected, very very conservative projections, by 2020.”

Those numbers come from a 2013 paper prepared by IHS and funded by fossil fuel industry associations like America’s Natural Gas Alliance. That paper counts “the induced contribution throughout the economy as workers spend their incomes on consumer goods and services,” a methodology that has been criticized by economists as inflating the actual jobs that come from the industry. And those projections pre-date the crash in oil prices.

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“The more effective we become in the methods that we use for extracting the natural gas, the safer we make it, could mean an unlimited future economically,” he enthused. But that unlimited potential, in Mr. Giuliani’s view, applies only to non-renewable sources of energy like fossil fuels – not wind or solar. “Whether we're talking about natural gas, we're talking about oil, nuclear, hydro – and then eventually sometime in the future, maybe some renewables,” he said, describing his vision of the nation’s energy future.

Ed. - emphasis added. Wow, some vision

http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/10/04/former-new-york-mayor-rudy-giuliani-offers-fracking-industry-pr-strategy-draws-three-mile-island-parallels

[djean111]

1. Well, Hillary's advice to Monsanto is to change their marketing, not their product.

And she shilled for fracking all over the world, as SOS. So maybe Rudy can get some pointers from Hillary about how to shill for fracking!

[MisterP]

2. cornucopianism? in this day and age? *scratches head*

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3. He has become such a public pimp.

First tried to ride 9-11 to fill his pockets, now hires out to whoever pays him.

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4. And he surrounded himself with talent & probity - remember Bernie Kerick?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. ahhh..yes, indeed.