Oil Executive: Military-Style 'Psy Ops' to be used on Anti Fracking advocates

[Ichingcarpenter]

Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of ideas.It was a gathering of professionals to discuss “media and stakeholder relations” in the hydraulic fracturing industry — companies using the often-controversial oil and gas extraction technique known as “fracking.”

But things took an unexpected twist.

CNBC has obtained audiotapes of the event, on which one presenter can be heard recommending that his colleagues download a copy of the Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency manual. (Click below to hear the audio.) That’s because, he said, the opposition facing the industry is an “insurgency.”



Another told attendees that his company has several former military psychological operations, or “psy ops” specialists on staff, applying their skills in Pennsylvania. (Click below to hear.)



The comments were recorded by an environmental activist, who passed along audio files to CNBC. The activist, Sharon Wilson, is the director of the Oil & Gas Accountability Project for the nonprofit environmental group Earthworks. She said she paid full price to attend the two day event, and wore a nametag identifying her organization as she recorded the conference.


You can hear them at the link


http://www.cnbc.com/id/45208498

[bananas]

1. "CNBC has obtained audiotapes of the event ... Click below to hear the audio"

For those who want to hear these things with their own ears...

[Blue_Tires]

2. kick

any remaing doubt that the corporations have become the de-facto government?

and of course, the fuckface PR rep trots out the same, moldy "it was only a joke" excuse...There ought to be a law banning that excuse

[abelenkpe]

3. K&R

There was a pro fracking post on DU yesterday calling claims that it pollutes and causes problems baseless....

Fracking is so obviously destructive thought it was very out of place.

[nykym]

4. And now the "insurgents"

should also download the manual to counter the enemy line of defense.