'Tactics as Dirty as Their Oil': Leaked Docs Reveal TransCanada's Propaganda Plan

[JEB]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/18/tactics-dirty-their-oil-leaked-docs-reveal-transcanadas-propaganda-plan

Documents show that oil and gas companies are placing serious resources of time, money, and personnel into countering the growing climate justice movement. "What this speaks to is that they are losing," says one campaigner whose group has been targeted by company strategy.
by
Jon Queally, staff writer

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Obtained by Greenpeace and given to The Guardian newspaper, the documents show that TransCanada—which has proposed building a pipeline called Energy East to bring tar sands from Alberta to New Brusnwick through the largest such pipeline ever built—is aligned with other oil and gas companies placing serious resources of time, money, and personnel into countering the growing climate justice movement which has so far successfully delayed building the Keystone XL pipelein and affirmed its commitment to stopping similar projects in the name of fighting global warming and the resulting threat of climate change.

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Responding to the revelations, Andrea Harden-Donaghue, lead climate campaigner for the Council of Canadians, told the Guardian that the ambitious scale of strategy suggested TransCanada was concerned about growing opposition to the Energy East project. "What this speaks to is that they are losing,” she said. “What these documents reveal is that they are bringing Tea Party activists into the equation in Canada combined with a heavyhanded advertising campaign. They are clearly spending a lot of time and thought on our efforts. I’d rather see them address the concerns that we are raising."

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Lots more about the dirty tactics at the link.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/18/tactics-dirty-their-oil-leaked-docs-reveal-transcanadas-propaganda-plan

[Octafish]

1. Big Oil can afford to tell the Big Lie

"...placing serious resources of time, money, and personnel into countering the growing climate justice movement...''

Heaven help us, as a major share of the US Government is bought and paid for by Big Oil.

[JEB]

2. We fight their wars,

subsidize their products and eat their shit.

[Octafish]

3. XXOOXOXO -- Our Military Industrial Complex at Work -- OXOXOOXX

On Dec. 8, 1992, after George Herbert Walker Bush was defeated at the polls by Bill Clinton with an assist from Ross Perot, he ordered the U.S. military into Somalia. Operation RESTORE HOPE was sold at the time as a "Humanitarian Mission," a phrase rarely used in conjunction with anything the guy did as president, as vice-president, as a Congressman from Texas or in his time at CIA for anyone other than his cronies and partners in crime.



What Poppy Bush's last new mission in Somalia did accomplish was to leave a crisis -- a huge dog turd in a burning bag of a crisis -- on the welcome mat at the front door of the White House for incoming President William J. Clinton. After that, things got off on the "right foot," from peace and prosperity for all and healthcare for the public quickly devolved into protect the status quo by continuing trickle down and welfare for the wealthy. And the humanitarian mission in Somalia that Poppy left for Bill? It quickly devolved into a fiasco of the first order, culminating in the disaster seared into the public consciousness courtesy of our fine corporate media as "Black Hawk Down."

Oh. Not that it's on tee vee or anything where millions might see it, but we're still in Somalia.

[RiverLover]

4. Dirty Oil in collusion w/ Dirty Media. Despicable.

From linked article...

...One of the campaign's most important steps involves developing a narrative that clearly tells the compelling Energy East Pipeline story and provides the opportunity for TransCanada to define the project on its own terms... the four agreed-upon campaign platforms of Safety; Environmental Stewardship; Economic Benefits & Jobs; and National (or Strategic) Interest.

To do this, we will audit existing positive messaging and creative assets, and will meet with key members of the project team to develop an umbrella message and core messages about the pipeline

We will research the editorial calendars of key media and align our promotional efforts with them for long-lead opportunities especially.

Media will prove a critical player in conveying our messages. We will build upon existing relationships and foster new ones with key local/national media

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/18/tactics-dirty-their-oil-leaked-docs-reveal-transcanadas-propaganda-plan

Freedom of the press...For Sale.