Frackers Use ‘Psy Ops’ To Deal With Pennsylvania ‘Insurgency’

[annabanana]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/8322-frackers-see-town-folks-as-qinsurgencyq-deploy-psy-ops

Natural gas fracking companies are treating the campaign to expand drilling in Pennsylvania like a military campaign, using “psy ops” to quell the “insurgency” of environmental, economic, and health concerns. Audio tapes recorded by the Oil & Gas Accountability Project at a Houston oil industry conference reveal the wartime mindset of the frackers, a CNBC report reveals:

In a session entitled “Designing a Media Relations Strategy To Overcome Concerns Surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing,” Range Resources communications director Matt Pitzarella spoke about “overcoming stakeholder concerns” about the fracking process.

“We have several former psy ops folks that work for us at Range because they’re very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments,” Pitzarella said. “Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. But very much having that understanding of psy ops in the Army and in the Middle East has applied very helpfully here for us in Pennsylvania.”

At another session, Matt Carmichael, the manager of external affairs for Anadarko Petroleum, spoke on the topic of “Understanding How Unconventional Oil & Gas Operators are Developing a Comprehensive Media Relations Strategy to Engage Stakeholders and Educate the Public.”

MUCH more at link

[BB1]

1. Sounds like bad news.

If you torture statistics enough, they'll confess.
Fracking is harmless, that's why we do it in your backyard, not ours.

[Cid_B]

2. Sounds like marketing and media relations...

... but psyops sounds a million times cooler and scarier.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. "psy ops" "insurgency" "wartime mindset" ... (LOL). That's what I was thinking...

sounds like the article is doing more scaremongering and "psyops" than the actual company PR efforts - lol.

[grntuscarora]

4. Whether you call it psy ops

or media/marketing, it's making it hard to get the other point of view out to a public that would much rather trust the ptb. The fracking companies are blitzing us with tv commercials full of happy families strolling through beautiful scenes of nature---see, folks, how benign fracking is? Go back to sleep!The Sunday paper had 3 pages of gas company ads (2 of them full page)reminding us what WONDERFUL things the companies are doing for PA.
The industries pockets are very deep, and countering that media blitz is difficult to impossible, especially when people dearly want to believe that the fracking of PA will all work out ok in the end.
You can call it standard media marketing if you want, but when an industry tries to brainwash an entire citizenry into docile acceptance, well, I'll call it psy ops.

potato/potahtoe

[annabanana]

6. Well, marketing and media relations ARE psy-ops.

aren't they?

[Cid_B]

7. For all intents and purposes

and to the layman yes...

Convincing someone to see something the way you'd like them too...

[SpiralHawk]

5. They freaking fracked Joe Paterno and Penn State to Kingdom Come, too

...just a coincidence, of course, that all this crap is flying around simultaneously in PA

Republicon-style occult psy-ops 'business' strategery to mindf*ck the citizens and rape the land has a hellacious blowback, coincidentally.