Public Relations

Duck and Cover

by Bob Burton — May 27, 2008 - 2:36am

The Alberta government has hired crisis management guru Peter Sandman to help it defuse concerns over the environmental impact of the oilsands mining industry.

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Calgary Herald, May 25, 2008

Thanks for the Mercury

by Judith Siers-Poisson — May 22, 2008 - 2:42pm

It isn't every day that a state's largest polluter is honored. It helps when the polluter -- and its buddies -- helped found and advise the group giving the award. The Maryland-based Wildlife Habitat Council gave biodiversity conservation awards to 21 companies, including the Lafarge cement plant in Ravena, New York. The award was for Lafarge's 150-acre Deer Mountain Nature Preserve. The honor was not publicized until the company came under fire for mercury contamination near a local high school.

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Times Union (Albany, NY), May 21, 2008

Rampton Reveals the Wires that Control the Public Mind

by Sheldon Rampton — May 19, 2008 - 4:13pm

CMD research director Sheldon Rampton gave a talk recently to employees at G

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Big Push for Big Oil

by Sheldon Rampton — May 14, 2008 - 11:15am

Faced with a national outcry over the high price of gasoline and soaring profits for energy companies, the American Petroleum Institute has launched a multimillion-dollar PR and advertising campaign to convince the public that "rising energy prices are not the producers' fault and that government efforts to punish the industry, especially with higher taxes, would only make pricing problems worse," reports Jeffrey H. Birnbaum.

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Washington Post, May 9, 2008
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