Archive for the 'Astroturfing' Category
Avatar director: Tar sands Are “Black Eye” to Canada
2 Comments Published by Andy Rowell April 21st, 2010 in Astroturfing, Canada, Public Relations, oil industry front groups, oil sands, tar sandsWhen faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation.
So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front for big oil and other polluting industries. The Global Climate Coalition was also no such thing [...]
The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell November 16th, 2009 in "Clean Coal", Airline industry, Astroturfing, Biofuels, CCS, Clean Development Mechanism, Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, Corporate front groups, Public Relations, aircraft travel, carbon offsetting, carbon trading, coal to liquids, greenwashing, lobbying, oil industry front groups, oil sands, tar sandsAll the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December.
This will please the corporate lobbyists no end. The longer they can delay action on climate the better.
But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. [...]
Big Oil Front Group Fights for Tar Sands
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell October 15th, 2009 in Astroturfing, Canada, Corporate front groups, Public Relations, tar sandsThe debate on energy and climate is littered with corporate front groups scare-mongering over action on climate change at the moment.
On the blog we have recently talked about the American Petroleum Institute’s astroturf “Energy Citizen” campaign and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCE)’s fake letter writers.
“We are seeing fraud-mongering on clean energy”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 19th, 2009 in "Clean Coal", Astroturfing, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate front groups, Public Relations, energy policyIt’s turning into Astroturf August. Hot on the heels of the revelations about the fake oil industry PR campaign, comes the fake coal PR campaign.
We knew that the fossil fuel industry would not give up without a fight, but we did not realise that had turned into such fossil fools, by have all their devious [...]
Oil Industry Astroturf Campaign Exposed
3 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 14th, 2009 in Astroturfing, Climate Change, Corporate front groups, Public Relations, lobbyingYou really didn’t think that the oil industry would just roll over and give up without a fight on the US Waxman-Markey Climate Bill did you?
Just a couple of days ago I blogged about how many people had lobbied the climate bill. Although they are pouring in serious cash to defeat the Bill, its still [...]
