{"id":5903,"date":"2015-02-22T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2015-02-22T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:06:21","slug":"four-years-after-greenpeace-sting-pr-firm-dumps-oil-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5903","title":{"rendered":"Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"blog-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/blog\/four-years-after-greenpeace-sting-pr-firm-dumps-oil-lobbyists\" target=\"_blank\">Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps you heard the good news &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest public relations firm, Edelman, just<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holmesreport.com\/latest\/article\/edelman's-american-petroleum-institute-assignment-set-to-end\" target=\"_blank\">spun off an advertising subsidiary<\/a>\u00a0so that it could show a commitment to not aiding the denial of climate change science.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/feb\/19\/edelman-public-relations-ends-relationship-american-petroleum-institute\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0explains how API&#8217;s contracts with Edelman were so massive&#8211;tens of millions of dollars&#8211;that it was up to 10% of the PR giant&#8217;s income.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Edelman has managed multi-million dollar contracts with the American Petroleum Institute (API), using its Blue Advertising subsidiary to help API run commercials selling fantasies to people: that oil and gas are our only viable, plentiful, &#8220;<em>AMERICAN&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>In the saga that led Edelman to dump the lobbyists at API, Greenpeace had a small role to play: we infiltrated a commercial shoot, run by Edelman&#8217;s Blue advertising arm for API. The commercials were to be called &#8220;Vote 4 Energy,&#8221; casting the illusion of mass popular demand for more oil and gas drilling (and more pollution, more climate change, and more government giveaways to prop it all up).<\/p>\n<p>After being dressed up in a button-down, plaid orange shirt&#8211;I&#8217;m not sure what look they had in mind for me&#8211;I was put in front of the camera and told to repeat lines back. This despite the casting call for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/post\/american-petroleum-institute-auditions-do-not-stick-to-script\/2011\/12\/09\/gIQAy3nliO_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">REAL PEOPLE not Actors!<\/a>&#8221; Huh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists Perhaps you heard the good news &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest public relations firm, Edelman, justspun off an advertising subsidiary\u00a0so that it could show a commitment to not aiding the denial of climate change science.\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0explains how API&#8217;s contracts with Edelman were so massive&#8211;tens of millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1349,387,1278,3696,3697,1161],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-edelman","tag-greenpeace","tag-oil-industry","tag-oil-lobby","tag-pr","tag-public-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}