Anadarko Using Brand Ambassadors to Push Back Against Anti-Drillers

From Bloomberg Business:
Windsor High School junior Kamille Hocking worried a dozen oil wells on her family’s 132-acre Colorado homestead might sicken them. Then, Rebecca Johnson, an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. engineer, used a blender in her chemistry class to show the interaction of swirling frack sand, city water and friction reducer. 
“We heard a lot of stories about how it could get into the water and pollute the land,” said Hocking, who is 16. “I’m going to tell my parents that fracking fluid only makes cracks in the rock the size of a hair that the sand gets into and holds open.” 
Facing 10 possible ballot initiatives restricting fracking, Anadarko has deployed 160 landmen, geologists and engineers such as Johnson to Rotary clubs, high schools and mothers groups. They demonstrate how drilling works and try to convince people that the technique and the accompanying chemicals and geological effects don’t harm the environment or public health.

These de facto ambassadors are proving effective in deflecting the effort by Colorado municipalities to gain greater control over drilling. They have been so successful that the Woodlands, Texas-based company also trained 2,000 additional employees in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Texas to answer questions posed to them by community members. The Coloradans use a smartphone app that supplies basic fracking facts. Others elsewhere get colorful printed materials.
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