19.11.2014 - 18:12 [ Democracy Now! ]

As Sioux Tribe Calls Keystone XL an „Act of War“, TransCanada Hires PR Firm to Probe Critics

This comes as newly leaked documents reveal the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline is engaged in a „perpetual campaign“ to mobilize support for another pipeline connecting the tar sands oil fields to an ocean port, this one entirely inside Canada — bypassing opposition in the United States. Strategy documents drafted for TransCanada by the public relations firm Edelman, the world’s biggest privately held PR firm, also detail its lobbying strategy and efforts to mobilize some 35,000 supporters.