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Activist tries crashing API commercial, strays from script

After obtaining an invitation, oil and gas industry watchdog attempts to tout ‘clean energy’ before leaving set, contacting press When clean energy activist Gabe Elsner got hold of an invitation to an American Petroleum Institute advertisement shoot, results were not pretty. API’s television spot is part of a major advocacy campaign the group will unveil Jan. 4, an API spokesman said. It is styled as a grassroots campaign in which ordinary people speak to the camera, saying they vote in favor of American jobs. The industry is promoting increased oil and gas drilling. But Elsner, deputy director of the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group the Checks and Balances Project,… Read More