Old Consultant Welcomes New Sucker [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
The Philadelphia Inquirer is the latest news outlet [3] to fail to disclose the fact that Patrick Moore [4], a former Greenpeace activist turned PR consultant, is on the nuclear industry payroll. A recent 690-word opinion column by Moore, titled "Old foes welcome clean fuel," promotes nuclear power as a "solution" to global warming [5]. At the foot of the column, the biographical note states that Moore "co-chairs the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition [6] (CASEnergy), which promotes the economic and environmental benefits of nuclear power as part of a green energy economy." What it doesn't state is that CASEnergy is a front group [7] created by Hill & Knowlton [8] for the Nuclear Energy Institute [9], the peak lobby group for the U.S. nuclear industry. Just over three years ago, shortly after Moore's "coalition" was launched, Hill and Knowlton's Frank Mankiewicz [10] insisted in a letter [11] to the Columbia Journalism Review that Moore “has been completely transparent about funding sources and relationships with the Nuclear Energy Institute and the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton."