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Dave Quast teen smoking author now peddling fracking to Californians

March 11, 2014 By TXsharon

Dave Quast teen smoking

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel

A Public Service Announcement from the Fracking Industry

May 6, 2013 By TXsharon

Here is a message about the fracking controversy from the oil & gas institute. Oh wait!   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco

Tobacco mafia trades players to fracking LNG export issue

January 24, 2013 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, LNG

Merchants of Fracking Doubt

December 9, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, Frackademia, fracking's Joe Camel

The Tobacco Mafia, the Fracking Mafia and the EPA

November 27, 2012 By TXsharon

"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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel

HARC scientist again defends his work on oil and gas activity impacts on air quality

November 8, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Air pollution, Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel

Tobacco industry players traded to fracking industry

October 9, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel, GASroots, Range Resources

Blame the coffee in your cup not the fracking in your backyard for leukemia

August 28, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel, health, leukemia, Sarcasm

Energy In Depth is to fracking as Joe Camel is to cigarettes

August 25, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, fracking's Joe Camel, GASroots, propaganda, satire

Diesel is still used for fracking

August 18, 2012 By TXsharon

"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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco, EPA, Uncategorized

Proving fracking harm, we’ve been down this road before

July 24, 2012 By TXsharon

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...]

Filed Under: Big Gas = Big Tobacco

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