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S6, Ep8 | Anatomy of a Front Group

Drilled • Season 6 Episode 8

S6, Ep8 | Anatomy of a Front Group

Methane Gas
Utilities

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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 information through a new "grassroots" group: Citizens for Balanced Energy Solutions. Except 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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