The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY) is quite the active and vocal group, often participating in events with the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s (IPAA) public relations campaign called Energy-in-Depth (EID). JLCNY has now transformed itself from what was a supposedly a Grassroots organization to an Astroturf one, …
I would like to thank Professors Wendy Lee and Susan O’Donnell of Bloomsburg University for their tremendous work in bringing the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project to our area, and for making me part of it. On April 30, 2013, I gave a presentation which examines the messaging machine of the …
Marcellus Drilling News, a subscription shale rag, re-cycles fracking PR and sells it as if it were “news” to what must be the most gullible fracking audience in the world. MDN was probably the only semi-pro shale shyster that was unaware of the fact that the New York DEC has a …
WHOOO-HOOO, Frackers and Environmentalists collaborate! At least that’s the headlines and spin from the natural gas PR people and the media echo chamber. What does this new collaboration have to do with fluffy kittens? Not much. What does this new collaboration have to do with addressing the real issue of …
The Natural Gas Goliaths seem to be smarting a bit from the efforts of real grassroots fractivist groups. Yes, this is a battle of David vs Goliath. In this round, the Goliath’s weapon of choice is to throw poop and whine about lobbying money. The Associated Press ran “Celeb fracking …
Energy-in-Depth (EID), the public relations project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) has recently taken to dismiss concerns being expressed regarding Shale industrialization. EID dismisses information about risks and hazards as “scare tactics”. This sort of attempt at framing concerns is amateurish. Sometimes the TRUTH is really really …
Range Resources advertises itself as “Good Neighbors”, they even state “We also pledge to be a good neighbor“on their website. According to dictionary.com the words GOOD and NEIGHBOR are defined as: GOOD: 1. morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man. 2. satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree: a good …
W A R N I N G: READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, CONTENT MAY INCLUDE SARCASM. CORRECTION – CONTENT DOES INCLUDE SARCASM. A “new” organization is set to launch in March 2013. It’s called, are you ready for this? It’s called the Institute for Gas Drilling Excellence (IGDE). I think I’ve …
By now, most of us have seen at least one TV commercial produced by Energy Tomorrow. Energy Tomorrow is a public relations project of the American Petroleum Institute (API), and is similar Energy-in-Depth, a project the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) without the blog posts. Other natural gas related …
The Natural Gas industry (NGI) has taken some big hits this week and seems to be punch drunk. Even Energy-inept Energy-In-Depth/IPAA failed to respond in their usual fashion with a hit piece. Their blogs this week consisted mainly of the writings of “guest blogger”. What has TKO’s the NGI? A …