Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits “for the cure”

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http://www.salon.com/2014/10/08/susan_g_komen_teams_up_with_fracking_company_introduces_pink_drill_bits_for_the_cure/



Pinkwashing hits a new low (updated)

Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits “for the cure”
Lindsay Abrams
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014 02:23 PM EST

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the foundation known for painting everything pink and, in one extremely controversial decision, pulling its grants from Planned Parenthood, has found a partner in Baker Hughes, a major drilling services company. The result: Baker Hughes is rolling out one thousand pink drill bits this October. Seriously.

The oilfields giant, which also donated $100,000 to the foundation, boasts that it’s “doing our ‘bit’ for the cure.” Get it? It’s a pun. A horribly misguided, pinkwashing attempt at a pun.

Fuel Fix reports:

“Our hope is from the water cooler to the rig site to the coffee shop to everywhere, someone gets this information to their spouses, their girlfriends, their daughters so we can create awareness and end this disease forever,” said Bill Debo, director of operations for U.S. land drill bits at Baker Hughes.

…Each steel bit — weighing 85 to 260 pounds — is painted by hand at the company’s drill bit manufacturing facility in The Woodlands and then shipped to the drill site in a pink-topped container containing information packets with breast health facts, including breast cancer risk factors and screening tips.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. So women getting cancer as a result of carcinogens introduced into their groundwater

will have a relatively tiny amount of money donated to research into how to cure the cancers given to them by those same companies? I REALLY thought this was going to be an Onion piece.

[enough]

3. I thought so too. This is beyond irony. (nt)

[tridim]

2. More dirty money, guaranteeing they will never find "the cure"

Which is the last thing they want... It's just not profitable.

[adirondacker]

4. Wow this is twisted with fucking irony. ! nt