Friday, April 22, 2011

Is it authentic?

Oil and gas land lease talking points doc goes viral

Early last week the Green Environmental Coalition (GEC) provided me with a copy of a document that purported to be deceptive talking points for oil and gas landsmen that was said to have been found near a home in Miami Township that had been targeted for a lease. I asked GEC to post it on their Website so I could link to it. It took awhile, but it is up there now. Meanwhile, the story has hit the media, both locally and nationally (see link below) and the state has been asked to investigate.

Judge for yourself: Oil talking points (Link to PDF)

WTOV-TV: Ohio AG Asked To Investigate Deceitful Gas Drilling Memo's Authenticity (AP)

Canton Rep: Attorney general asked to investigate gas lease tactics

4 comments:

Kay Reimers said...

I just read the document you posted. Hard to believe it's true, but it probably is. What a sad world we've created with such greed and hubris.

Anonymous said...

There's a longer article about this here:

http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x1410200819/Attorney-general-asked-to-investigate-gas-lease-tactics

Virgil Hervey said...

Good article! Thanks for the link. I am adding it to the post.

Anonymous said...

Is it authentic? Who cares. It's great agit-prop.