From: Salon
A 2010 presentation laid out strategies for dealing with environmentalists
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The
oil industry never wanted people to get worked up about the tapping of
Canada’s tar sands. That much already went without saying. But a 2010 presentation
released by Wikileaks shows just how desperate it was to keep to
environmentalists off its back — and just how unsuccessful, three years
later, it’s been in doing so.
The presentation was prepared by
Stratfor, a global intelligence firm based in Texas, for what appears to
be Suncor Energy, Canada’s largest oil sands producer. (While Suncor denies
ever having commissioned or seen the presentation, the company’s name
is mentioned a total of 11 times throughout.) It breaks down nearly two
dozen environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation,World Wildlife Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, into
four basic categories: radicals, idealists, realists and opportunities
and then sets out potential strategies for dealing with each, such as
intentionally delaying negotiations or, as is proposed in this slide,
ignoring them:
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