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, …
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS INTENDED TO BE SATIRE, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK, HUMOR, ala THE ONION TYPE STORY. The Pennsylvania Department of Energy Production (DEP) kicked off a celebration of National Drinking Water Week with a gala event at Cheapskate Energy Arena in Oklahoma. Broke Axelander, spokes model for Energy Gone Tomorrow, opened …
An “opinion” piece by Chris Faulkner, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Breitling Energy Companies has been featured in a number of newspapers across the country. The title varies, depending on the publication, from Dispel Myths About Fracking, Debunking Fracking Misconceptions, to The Truth About Fracking. All with …
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 …
Hey, is this the Attack of the Clones by the Natural Gas Industry? Is “messaging” “coordinated”? How about all those talking points which all sound the same? And what’s up with all the websites echoing each other? Are they really independent and that many “individual groups” or are they like …
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 …
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 …