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Big Oil Playbook Part 2


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De Clarke/Cortes Currents - In the second part of an interview with Emilia Belliveau from Environmental Defence Canada, she describes specific tactics Playbook, Environmental Defence has condensed the industry’s PR and political efforts into ten major categories, and provided a description and deconstruction of each one.
"We're laying out these 10 tactics that the fossil fuel industry is using, we're showing how they work in a coordinated way, and we're connecting the dots between some of the tactics that are more publicly well known -- like fossil fuel industry lobbying — with some of the things that are not as well known to the public, like the revolving door. That is, the workforce that is moving between fossil fuel industry executive positions and regulatory positions, or the public service. We're drawing attention to these things — things we think are really problematic, and explain why Canada is having such a hard time transitioning off of fossil fuels and addressing the climate crisis."
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