Dave Quast teen smoking author now peddling fracking David Quast teen smoking author worked for Philip Morris from 1997 to 1998 as manager of media affairs. He still brags about writing their Youth Smoking Prevention program that was designed to … [Read more...]
A Public Service Announcement from the Fracking Industry
Here is a message about the fracking controversy from the oil & gas institute. Oh wait! … [Read more...]
Tobacco mafia trades players to fracking LNG export issue
Here we go again. The Merchants of Doubt who pushed cigaretts on the American public are using the same tactics and even the same players to push the US toward exporting our domestic natural gas. Smoke and Mirrors: Obama DOE Fracked Gas Export … [Read more...]
Merchants of Fracking Doubt
I've told you many time how the fracking industry is just like the tobacco industry and how they are using the same strategies. Merchants of Doubt is a book that shows how industry uses the strategies used by the tobacco industry to create doubt … [Read more...]
The Tobacco Mafia, the Fracking Mafia and the EPA
"JUNK SCIENCE AT THE EPA.'" EPA taking "extreme positions not supported by science." If you think the above comes from the fracking industry, you are correct. If you think it came from the tobacco industry, you are also correct. The fracking … [Read more...]
HARC scientist again defends his work on oil and gas activity impacts on air quality
Eduardo Olaguer, Director of Air Quality Research at Houston Advanced Research Council and Senior Research Scientist recently published a paper, “The potential near-source ozone impacts of upstream oil and gas industry emissions,” in the Journal of … [Read more...]
Tobacco industry players traded to fracking industry
For years I've been saying how the fracking industry was following the tobacco industry's playbook. But it goes deeper than just the playbook. They are using the same players. I have an idea to help us keep up with all the players. In addition to … [Read more...]
Blame the coffee in your cup not the fracking in your backyard for leukemia
Dear Readers, When I worked at UNT, I did a little demonstration for the department chair to make a point. I wrote on several pieces of paper all the many responsibilities that made up my job. Then I tore the paper so each responsibility was on a … [Read more...]
Energy In Depth is to fracking as Joe Camel is to cigarettes
Dr. Cline and EID offer extraordinarily weak expositions which contradict their premise, demonstrate an acute misunderstanding of their own industry and advocate for actions which are not considered “best practices” in the oil and gas … [Read more...]
Diesel is still used for fracking
"The question is, did you create an environmental problem by using it, and the answer is 'no,'" said Lee Fuller* of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. That quote from Fuller comes from Friday's E&E article: HYDRAULIC … [Read more...]
Proving fracking harm, we’ve been down this road before
Yesterday we had a conversation about an AP article and breast cancer rates in Texas. We, as a nation, have been down this road before. I can remember exactly where I was (driving my VW on I-30 in Fort Worth nearing the Montgomery Street exit) … [Read more...]