{"id":2057,"date":"2014-11-25T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2014-11-25T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:44:40","slug":"vivian-krause-and-richard-bermans-oil-industry-playbook-desmogblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Krause and Richard Berman\u2019s Oil Industry Playbook | DeSmogBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2014\/11\/25\/vivian-krause-and-richard-berman-s-play-book\">Vivian Krause and Richard Berman\u2019s Oil Industry Playbook | DeSmogBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">He had no idea he was being\u00a0taped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">So when influential Washington,\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">DC<\/span>,<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">political consultant Richard Berman<\/a>\u00a0talked about strategy and tactics to the oil and gas industry\u2019s Western Energy Alliance in Colorado Springs this past June, he didn\u2019t mince words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span class=\"dquo\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em;\">\u201c<\/span>This is an endless war,\u201d Berman\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The secret tape was published in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks ago, released by a displeased oil industry executive, on condition of\u00a0anonymity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">As he urged industry reps to employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities, Berman also made one emphatic\u00a0point:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eeeeee; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 15px; margin: 15px 30px 15px 30px; border: 1px solid #999999;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><span class=\"dquo\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5em;\">\u201c<\/span>People always ask me one question all the time, \u2018How do I know that I won&#8217;t be found out as a supporter of what you&#8217;re doing?\u2019 We run all of this stuff through non-profit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity. People don&#8217;t know who supports us. We&#8217;ve been doing this for 20-something years in this\u00a0regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Krause and Richard Berman\u2019s Oil Industry Playbook | DeSmogBlog. He had no idea he was being\u00a0taped. So when influential Washington,\u00a0DC,political consultant Richard Berman\u00a0talked about strategy and tactics to the oil and gas industry\u2019s Western Energy Alliance in Colorado Springs this past June, he didn\u2019t mince words. \u201cThis is an endless war,\u201d Berman\u00a0said. 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