Big fossil fuel campaigns claim that dirty fuels are green

At Occasional Planet, Mike Davis discusses the ubiquitous TV commercials touting the green-ness of natural gas and Canadian tar-sand oil. At my workplace lunchroom, there is a TV, and I’ve seen these misleading commercials many times. I’ve also seen many recent ads for “clean coal,” even though no such coal plants exist. Interesting how the industry never even attempts to argue that coal ash is “clean.”

Mike notes a lack of media stories critical of these ads, not surprising given the ad revenue the media receives for running these commercials.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Niklaus Pfirsig

    I’ve seen an ad that portrays a group of college students presumably discussing energy alternatives. In the ad, one student convinces a group of environmentally conscious students that natural gas is a clean, environmentally safe alternative to oil and coal.

    No mention of the many problems related to fracking. No mention of leakage or tainting of the water supply.

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