JW Randolph at Grist has discovered that the coal industry has, quite literally, bought friends off the shelf in the FACES of Coal campaign facilitated by the D.C. PR firm Adfero. The photos on the FACES website were all sourced from iStockPhoto, which, as the name implies, is the place where lazy/busy/rich people go for photos when, for example, they donโt have any friends of theirย own.
Campaigners say advertising and PR agencies are โnowhere closeโ to giving up their oil and gas clients.
Policy update also restricts advertising for fossil fuels products and services in council owned ad sites.
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
