Next Frontier in Natural Gas Wars: Psy Ops

Next Frontier in Natural Gas Wars: Psy Ops by Kate Sheppard, November 9, 2011, Mother Jones
Here’s the direct quote from Range Resources communications director Matt Pitzarella, from a from session titled “Designing a Media Relations Strategy To Overcome Concerns Surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing”: “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. … And here’s Matt Carmichael, the manager of external affairs for Anadarko Petroleum: “Download the U.S. Army-slash-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, because we are dealing with an insurgency,”