Fossil fuel corporations as obstacles

Robert A. Hackett, professor emeritus of communication at Simon Fraser University, and Philippa R. Adams, PhD student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, report that much of the argument advanced in support of expanding Canada’s fossil fuel production centres on job creation and economic benefits.

Jobs and Environment

Politicians, pundits and corporate spokespeople who support fossil fuel infrastructure projects—such as new oil and gas pipelines—often evoke this rhetoric when they appear in the media.

Concerns by Author

This study examines how the press—including corporate and alternative outlets—treats the relationship between jobs and the environment. Focusing on pipeline projects that connect Alberta’s oil sands to export markets, it also asks which voices are treated as authoritative and used as sources, whose views are sidelined, which arguments for and against pipelines are highlighted, and what similarities and differences exist between mainstream and alternative media coverage of pipeline controversies.1

More concerns and authors

1 (2018, December 19). Where is labour's voice in coverage of pipeline controversies .... Retrieved December 20, 2018, from https://www.corporatemapping.ca/where-is-labours-voice-in-coverage-of-pipeline-controversies/