Solar Energy Spill Billboard Rejected (WTF?)

Wow, this is a shocker, a solar energy, anti-oil billboard very similar to the solar energy spill billboard that went viral a few months ago was recently rejected by an outdoor advertising company in Canada. Shocking.

Here’s the full story via Carol Linnitt of DeSmog Blog:

Desmog Video
Greenpeace Clean Energy Billboard Rejected by Pattison (via Desmogblog)

After a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline spilled between 160,000 and 480,000 liters of oil into Jackson Creek near the Red Deer River in Alberta this month, premier Alison Redford called the incident “an exception.” Yet, as Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Mike Hudema reports, this spill…

For more, connect with me on Google+ or zacharyshahan.com.

Zachary Shahan (2363 Posts)

I'm the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular clean energy website in the world, and Planetsave, a leading green and science news site. I've been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and I've been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and wind energy for the past few years. You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Think Progress, GE's ecomagination site, several sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. To connect on some of your favorite social networks, go to zacharyshahan.com or click on some of the links below.

anderlan

Sounds like we need a little civil disobedience. Perhaps draping the ad over the billboard despite the (no doubt thumbscrewed by oil or their enslaved Alberta politicians) owners.
Stfn Pkt

As a canadian living in the state, I’m sadden by Harper, Canada is now like the USA run by Bush’s. Buy an electric car if you can, and tell them to go f#$! them self with this dirty oil, any oil is dirty anyway.

The sun is free, use it!
- http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Yeah, unfort., that what it seems from the headlines i’ve seen. At least some major cities (e.g. Ontario) are still doing good stuff.
  - mk1313
    
    Not for long. Seen what McSquinty has been doing lately!
    - http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
      
      ugh, no..
mk1313

Wonder how much of their revenue comes from gas & oil who probably threatened to pull their ads. So much for concepts of fairness like freedom of speech and equal representation. Dare not piss off Harpo’s croneys!
wattleberry

The opposition making our case for us. I was also encouraged by Obama’s enthusiastic public health reception this week. The table turning?