Exposing an Energy Front Group

Episode 8 of the Drilled podcast, hosted by Pushkin Industries, titled "Exposing an Energy Front Group" was published on May 3, 2022 and runs 19 minutes.

May 3, 2022 ·19m · Drilled

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Summary

A year after San Luis Obispo took the lead in Southern California on a gas ban, the coastal town of Santa Barbara was evaluating a similar proposal, and residents were being spammed with texts encouraging opposition to the ban and offering...

Episode Description

When Santa Barbara residents began receiving urgent text messages encouraging them to oppose the gas ban, the messages claimed to be from Citizens for Balanced Energy Solutions, a concered "grassroots" citizens group. But it wasn't a citizens group at all—it was a front group started by the country's largest gas utility.

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