Blowback for Disney As Pro-Fracking Elementary School Tour Exposed

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/10-5



"Rocking in Ohio" workshop from September 2013 (Photo: Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program Facebook Page)

Blowback for Disney As Pro-Fracking Elementary School Tour Exposed
- Sarah Lazare, staff writer
Published on Friday, January 10, 2014 by Common Dreams

Disney has pulled the plug on a pro-fracking and drilling tour of elementary schools and science centers across Ohio, bankrolled by the state's oil and gas industry, after drawing fury from environmental activists and concerned parents.

Yet critics charge Disney's withdrawal, which was announced publicly on Thursday, falls short. "This is an important first step, but we want a policy to ensure children are not having fossil fuel energy promoted to them in Radio Disney's programs across the country," said Lisa Hoyos, director of the group Climate Parents that played a lead role in the campaign against Disney, in an interview with Common Dreams.

Billed as an educational program, "Rocking in Ohio" visited elementary schools and science centers across the state, with a total of 26 stops last month. It was led by Radio Disney staffers based in Cleveland, who presented workshops promoting oil and gas pipelines to youth attendees. The presentations created party-like atmospheres with thumping pop music and pipeline-building contests, in what critics have slammed as propaganda for the oil and gas industry in a state that is ground zero for fracking.

All of the program's funding came from the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP), which is in turn funded by the state's oil and gas industry.

[DetlefK]

1. I remember a cartoon that was Big Oil-propaganda.

It was about 10 feet-tall intelligent dinosaurs stranded on earth (from a parallel universe or something like that).

The good dinosaurs just wanted to live in peace while hiding from the humans.

The bad dinosaurs wanted to initiate global warming to make the planet more habitable for their invasion-force/settlers.
How did they do that?
By attacking oil-rigs and pipelines and setting the crude oil on fire. (Fire makes hot!)
The good dinosaurs spent almost every episode defending an oil-installation against "evil-doers", the bad dinosaurs and their dinosaur-shaped, extremely stupid war-drones.