luv them fluorinated gases

November 23, 2005

HILL & KNOWLTON LOBBIES FOR F-GASES

The Hill & Knowlton PR firm reportedly used scaremongering tactics

to kill legislation before the European Parliament that would have

banned fluorinated gases ( " f-gases " ), which contribute to global

warming. " It's been six months of intense lobbying, " said Avril

Doyle, a parliamentarian who supported the regulation. " It was

email, writing, phoning and faxing, non stop. " She added that MEPs

received letters " threatening them with job losses if they voted for

this amendment or they voted for that directive. " Greenpeace reports

that the most vocal lobbying on F-gas regulation has come from the

" European Partnership for Energy and the Environment " (EPEE). In

fact, EPEE is neither European nor for the environment. " It's

actually an industry front group, " states the Greenpeace report,

" made up largely of American and Japanese multinationals with plants

in Europe, who are lobbying against regulation of F-gases out of

cost concerns. And while their website makes a flashy show of how

their chemicals don't destroy the ozone (which is true) they fail to

mention that they're contributing to global warming. ... Ironically,

Hill & Knowlton is exactly the same company which, in 1975, trotted

out reports and scientists claiming that the Ozone hole was a myth,

environmentalists were scare-mongering, and industry shouldn't be

required to take costly and unnecessary action to ban CFCs. "

SOURCE: BBC, November 22, 2005

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