Sure, he's recycling the work of bloggers without giving acknowledgement (mostly
DC; maybe
me a bit). Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is no collusion between the
Ethical Oil Institute and the Harper government...but doing so anonymously. Nevertheless,
Paul Well's piece on Ethical Oil and Northern Gateway is worth a read.
Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is no collusion between the Ethical Oil Institute and the Harper government.
ReplyDeleteJust because former Conservative staffers -- Hamish Marshall, Kathryn Marshall,Alykhan Velshi -- run the website doesn't mean that there's any collusion... It just meant that they couldn't find anyone other than ex-Conservative staffers to run "Ethical Oil."
This part from the article got a chuckle from me:
Now the company is helping family and friends spread the message that foreigners must not interfere in Canadian resource decisions. Whose money is paying for the campaign? Ethical Oil’s website proclaims that, “Unlike most anti-oil sands organizations,” it “does not accept any money from foreign donors like Greenpeace International, the U.S. Tides Foundation or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The founders of Greenpeace were Canadians. They also have four offices in Canada. Don't go hating on a Canadian organization that became successfully internationally. :P Especially if this is true from the article:
Many firms active in the oil sands have their headquarters in Texas, France, the United Kingdom and China.
He didn't refuse to credit you, he just got the "connections" part from Conservative insiders themselves. He didn't need to get it from anyone else. He posted a rebuttal to the suggestion that he owed credit to some blogs. He acknowledged their work, but said he didn't need it as he got it straight from the horse's mouth, and dismissed the conspiratorial insinuations of the bloggers.
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