Anti-Keystone pipeline ad to air during Obama's Aug. 6 Tonight Show appearance

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The ad is being aired by NextGen Climate Action, the project of Tom Steyer, who founded hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC and is a Keystone foe. It will run in the Washington, D.C., television market.

The Obama administration is expected to decide the fate of the project in the weeks or months ahead. The pipeline would carry about 830,000 barrels a day across six U.S. states. Environmentalist opponents cite risks including greenhouse gas releases and spills.

http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-08-06/keystone-attack-ad-parodies-transcanadas-girling/

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1. Good one

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2. After Airing Pro-Keystone XL Ads, NBC Station Rejects Ad Opposing The Pipeline

NBC has rejected an ad opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, despite running ads in favor of its construction. The climate group NextGen Climate Action says it was notified at the last minute Tuesday night that a Washington, D.C. NBC station rejected its ad, submitted for President Obama’s appearance on the Tonight Show. A representative for the group suggested that the station may have bowed to oil corporate pressure in rejecting the ad and challenged the station to disavow that polluter interests played a role in the decision.

“Given that we complied with the station’s process, the fact that the ad is accurate in exposing TransCanada’s representation regarding the Keystone Pipeline and WRC/NBC’s history of taking advertising petro-dollars, something simply does not smell right here,” Executive Director of NextGen Tom Adams said in a statement.

The ad submitted to WRC Monday parodies TransCanada CEO Russ Girling and its suspect claims that the pipeline would lead to energy independence and create tens of thousands of jobs. The Hill’s Ben Geman noted that an oil industry-run group immediately criticized the new ad.

“After a careful review, it was determined that this ad violates our guidelines. We have communicated that to the advertiser,” a WRC spokesperson said.

According to NBC’s advertising guidelines, anything that appears to be “an attack of a personal nature, a direct attack on an individual business or a comment on a private dispute” can be considered unacceptable content...

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/07/2426211/nbc-keystone-ad/


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The ad actually kind of sucked anyway. They shouldn't have went personal and xenophobic. It just gave NBC an excuse not to air it.