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aPI's Veterans Group Goes to Bat for Keystone Pipeline

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-- Op-ed by Dave Saldana, Keystone Pipelies Exposed

Americans revere few things as highly as the veteran. They deservedly get respect for having worn their nation's uniform in military service, many suffering mental and physical scars from their time in combat. To cheapen that service and sacrifice for private gain is considered the height of disgrace.

But that, apparently, is exactly what Big Oil is doing to push its Keystone XL agenda.

On Capitol Hill last week, several members of Congress, the Canadian ambassador, executives from TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute (API), and a group of veterans held a press conference pushing KXL as the answer to Russian aggression in Crimea, a means to bolster U.S. energy independence, and solve any number of international crises. (The last part is only a minor exaggeration. As Omaha World-Herald Washington bureau chief Joseph Morton noted, "Previously, pipeline supporters have tied the project to subjects including the conflict in Syria and the disclosures of classified material by Edward Snowden.")

It's no surprise that API and TransCanada are trying to whip up a frenzy about KXL as a panacea for American international diplomacy. They've spent millions of dollars on lobbying and have a wide-ranging, self-serving agenda for national energy policy. Likewise, their congressional cohort, Sens. John Hoeven, (R-N.D.), and Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.), and Rep. Lee Terry, (R-Neb.), are pet politicians of Big Oil, collecting some $293,237, $259,150, and $334,645, respectively in campaign and PAC contributions from the oil and energy industry during their careers. And since Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who cut his political teeth in Canada's oil country, Alberta -- is widely considered something of a sugar daddy to tar sands oil companies, the ambassador's presence is to be expected.

But what's the deal with the veterans group?

Rear Admiral Don Loren, of the group Vets4 Energy, spoke at the press conference, claiming the pipeline was key to projecting American strength and fostering a robust economy, according to the Omaha Herald. "All the world's eyes are watching this decision," he said. "They want to know whether we will move forward."

How America projects strength by turning its agricultural heartland into a toxic spillway to send dirty Canadian oil to foreign consumers is a question that apparently nobody asked. But they did ask where Vets4Energy gets its money. Loren acknowledged that his group gets funding from the API, but said it represents an "independent voice from veterans who believe in the issue."

But Loren seems to be soft-pedaling the facts; Vets4Energy appears to be little more than a manufactured frontgroup for API.

An API press release from 2013 states that the group is a project of API "American Petroleum Institute's Vets4Energy campaign." The group's chairman (according to the Anchorage Daily Planet; V4E's website does not identify the organization's leadership) is a former mayor of Anchorage who also happens to be formervice president of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, an API member. The video to the right shows API's CEO and president Jack Gerard giving a pep talk at a pre-lobbying meeting for high-ranking veterans, telling them to "Stand their Ground."

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But you would not know this from looking at the group's website. Vets4Energy describes itself as a "group of volunteer veterans who continue to serve America as advocates for energy policies to sustain our national security." But there's little evidence of rank-and-file veterans' membership. The organization's public face, in op-eds, public appearances and such, routinely consists of a small handful of senior officers, some who trade the cachet of their rank into cushy advisory gigs upon retiring, sometimes for companies they dealt with in the military.

One hesitates to call a retired officer and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Homeland Security Integration (even if he does appear to be trading on his military and homeland security service in an advisory gig with an international security consulting firm) a shill, but if a multimillion-dollar corporate lobbying group bankrolls the organization as a "campaign," and organizes pep rallies for its "grassroots" lobbying, its "independence" is suspect at best.

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aPI: Vets4Energy promote energy and national security on Capitol Hill

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WASHINGTON, July 10, 2013 – The American Petroleum Institute’s Vets4Energy campaign returns to the nation’s capital this week. Twenty-six veterans are meeting members of Congress and staff to discuss why burgeoning North American energy resources are vital to improving our national security.

“There are so many exciting opportunities for the U.S. to become a global leader in energy, but many lawmakers continue to ignore them,” said retired Major General Duane Jones. “We need to make sure Congress doesn’t lose sight of this game changing opportunity to produce more North American energy which will strengthen our national security.”

The veterans of Vets4Energy have fought in every U.S. war or engagement since Vietnam and believe that energy security is vital to keeping Americans safe.

“Greater U.S. security means reducing our dependence on oil from unfriendly parts of the world,” said retired Captain Keith Pekau. “We can do this easily by strengthening our energy ties with Canada and by tapping more of our own abundant resources.”

The war heroes are meeting with Senate and House members to promote an all of the above energy policy, including hydraulic fracturing, approving the Keystone XL pipeline, allowing greater access to domestic oil and natural gas resources, and repealing the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and ensuring our military is not prohibited from using oil derived from Canadian oil sands.

The Vets4Energy campaign is a non-partisan coalition of citizens committed to achieving energy security and holding elected officials accountable in shaping energy policies.

API is a national trade association that represents all segments of America’s technology-driven oil and natural gas industry. Its more than 500 members – including large integrated companies, exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, and marine businesses, and service and supply firms – provide most of the nation’s energy. The industry also supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers $85 million a day in revenue to our government, and, since 2000, has invested over $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.

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as Congress returns from recess soon, members will be tasked with deciding whether to support the Iran nuclear deal, a portion of which would allow that country to start selling its oil globally.

In the meantime, U.S. crude oil products still cannot be sold globally.

And that needs to change.

The ban on U.S. crude oil exports was put in place in the 1970s during the energy crisis as a way to insulate the nation from price spikes and ensure a sufficient supply. The U.S. was at the mercy of OPEC nations' oil.

However, the United States is now an energy superpower, exporting more oil and natural gas than it has in decades and developing smarter technology to use alternative energy sources.

From a global perspective, we should be using those resources to improve our national security by providing allies with U.S. oil so they aren't buying from our enemies.

The group I represent - Vets4Energy - believes that there is a nexus between energy security and national security and that energy policy should be made with defense and the military in mind.

We believe it's time for the outdated crude oil export ban to be lifted.

There's an economic benefit to lifting the ban as well - experts believe that if the ban were lifted, U.S. oil prices would increase, spurring additional production and driving down costs at the pump.

This helps consumers, who have already been enjoying low gas prices in recent years due to this increase in production.

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The United States now has the ability to flex its energy muscle to the benefit of our economy and our national security.

It seems possible Iran will soon be flooding the global market with its oil. Lawmakers shouldn't help Iran's economy and not afford American companies the same opportunity.

Congress should lift the ban on crude oil exports.

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Co-chairman, Vets4Energy,

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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Drilling 02/20/2015 by Frank Tursi WILMINGTON –

The first N.C. skirmish in what will certainly be a decades-long battle over offshore drilling played out in this old port city Tuesday. Proponents of drilling marshaled their forces in an old train station downtown. Over sandwiches stuffed with roast beef or ham, chicken salad or turkey, they struck a martial chord. Drilling, they said, is good for the economy, good for our nation’s security. It is decidedly the right thing to do.

! Across the bridge over in Wrightsville Beach, drilling opponents, amid color photos of the BP rig blowing sky high, rallied their troops at a late afternoon press conference.

Drilling, they said, will despoil beaches and wreck local economies. It is a decidedly dumb thing to do. The goal of both events was to encourage people to turn out for a public meeting that day at the Blockade Runner Hotel in Wrightsville Beach. The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management, known to all as BOEM, regulates energy production in federal waters. It held the meeting to get the people’s thoughts on the Obama administration’s recent proposal to open a portion of the Atlantic seaboard to oil and natural gas development. More than 400 people attended, by far the largest turnout at the three meetings the agency has had so far on the East Coast. If nothing else, drilling, it seems, is decidedly good for the meeting business.

The Good About Drilling About 160 people showed up at the Coastline Conference and Events Center, the former train station, to grab a free sandwich at what was billed as an Offshore Energy Luncheon. The N.C. Energy Forum provided the eats. Algenon Cash If you never heard of it, you’re forgiven. It is one of 27 state groups that are part of a larger effort known as America’s Energy Forum, which notes on its website that it is comprised of “concerned citizens committed to two goals – achieving energy security for our country and holding our elected officials more accountable in shaping energy policies.” Some have disparaged the forum as a fake grassroots group. The Center for Media and Democracy’s SourceWatch calls it an “astroturf” project of the American Petroleum Institute, or API, the largest trade group of oil and gas producers in the country. API admits to it, though you have to search pretty hard to find it. There it is, though, at the bottom of the forum website in tiny type: “Sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute.” David McGowan III, the executive director of the N.C. Petroleum Council – an API group – later confirmed the affiliation in an email.

No one talked about the connection at the luncheon, which was mostly attended by men in suits. Don Loren, a retired rear admiral, was on the agenda as the keynote speaker. He was to talk about the importance of oil and natural gas to the country’s security. Loren, a 31-year Navy veteran, commanded guided-missile frigates and destroyer squadrons, was a deputy assistant Defense secretary and is an expert in counterterrorism. He’s now with Vets4Energy, still another API group. Unfortunately, while the audience was munching, the admiral was stuck in port, so to speak. Bad weather had left him stranded at the Charlotte airport. So Algenon Cash was pressed into service. His day job is an investment banker in the Triad, but he’s also chairman of the N.C. Energy Forum, traveling the state with his pro-energy message. Sometimes, it’s not warmly received. He attended a fracking hearing back in August in Raleigh dressed in an orange t-shirt that said “JOBS” in big letters and “Powered by natural gas” in smaller letters beneath it. Many of the 500 people there showered him with boos.

The explosion of BPs Deepwater Horizon oil rig weighed heavily on the minds of many at the press conference. Photo: Surfrider There was nothing but enthusiastic applause Tuesday. Standing in front of a large poster that proclaimed “Energy Security = National Security,” Cash stressed that we are in the midst of an “energy revolution,” triggered largely by fracking that has made America the world’s top producer of natural gas. “We have left decades of scarcity behind us,” Cash told his audience. “That would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.” This revolution, he said, has made America more secure and less reliant on despotic, foreign governments for its energy. It has also provided real economic benefits, which he adroitly ticked off: the 9.8 million jobs that that the oil and gas industry supports, industry wages that are seven times the national average, soaring pension plans and 401ks that invest in oil and gas stocks.

The API website has more on all this if you’re interested. But the revolution is threatened by the “vocal minority,” Cash said. Using emotional arguments and erroneous science, it has stymied such things as the Keystone XL Pipeline, he noted. “You know what? I’m not very different from my friends in the environmental community,” Cash said. “I want clean water for my kids. I want clean air. It’s important that we do this right. It’s important that we protect the environment. Bureaucrats in Washington with their overreaching regulations and stifling one-size-fits-all policies are also a threat, Cash said. “We firmly believe that the energy resources throughout this country belong to you,” he said. “It should be the people’s choice in how they’re used.”

He urged his audience to take that message to the BOEM folks at the public hearing. Afterwards, Cash couldn’t come up with an example of a burdensome regulation or explain how a populist energy policy would work. Should states, for instance, control all drilling off their shores? “We just think that the states should have more say in energy development,” Cash said. The Bad About Drilling Almost 300 of Cash’s “vocal minority” crowded into a room at the Blockade Runner for a press conference called by 10 environmental groups. It was a very different crowd than the one at lunch. There were people with tattoos and pierced noses, kids in t-shirts and torn jeans from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, lots of young families toting small children, middle-aged couples and bearded retirees.

Many in the crowd wore blue Oceana t-shirts, handed out by one of the sponsoring groups. Other groups distributed fact sheets to help people submit commits at the BOEM hearing, which was going on just across the lobby. Jonathan Barfield Jr. One wall was dominated by a huge photograph of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig engulfed in flames and ringed by fire boats spewing jets of water. The explosion and massive spill in 2010 fouled 68,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico, an area about the size of Oklahoma. Oil washed up on 125 miles of Louisiana’s coast and along the Mississippi, Florida and Alabama coastlines. Scientists say dolphins are still dying from the aftereffects.

None of that was mentioned at lunch, but the BP spill and its aftermath were very much on the minds of people at the press conference. “I’m for offshore drilling,” said Jonathan Barfield Jr., “as long as it’s done on another continent.” Barfield is chairman of the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners and was one of the speakers at the press conference. Before taking up the microphone, he looked at the photo of the burning rig and wondered what would happen to his community if something like that were to occur here. “What would happen to our economy? What would happen to our estuaries?” he asked. “We need to make sure that we never find out.” James Lewis came from Morehead City to attend the press conference and public hearing. He had a big button pinned to his shirt that had an oil rig encircled with an X. We’re pursuing the wrong kind of offshore energy, he said. “Oil and water don’t mix,” Lewis said. “There’s plenty of wind out there that we could have.” Speakers talked about a spill’s effects on fisheries, on tourist-based economies, on people’s health.

The Oceana website and many others have more on all this if you’re interested. Dave Taylor of Beaufort doesn’t have to consult a website. He’s been there. “I’ve lived in California. I’ve lived on the Gulf Coast. I’ve walked on tar balls on the beach,” he said. “I’ve seen what could happen and I don’t want it to happen here.” The Ugly Politics of Drilling Meanwhile, BOEM folks across the hall dutifully explained their environmental review process and welcomed written comments. The flow chart for how the agency analyzes all the information it obtains and how it permits each step in process is long and complex. One BOEM official told a very earnest questioner that it would be 2030 maybe longer before any oil or natural gas from the Atlantic reaches consumers somewhere in the world. “And that’s if the politics don’t change,” he said.

Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.

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American Petroleum Institute Clones

The American Petroleum Institute (API), is the largest trade association for the oil and gas industry and is a 501(c)(6). An organization designated as a 501 (c)(6) are not profit associations which help advance their industry or geographic area. Members may include individuals and corporations[[i]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn1).

API is a powerful lobbying, spending an average of $6-7 million per year. It also funds groups such as Americas for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)[[ii]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn2).

The API has become adept at spinning off front groups and cloning them to create the illusion of wide and diverse public support.

An example of the use of “clones” is API’s America’s Energy Forum. It states “America’s Energy Forum is a non-partisan community of concerned citizens committed to two goals – achieving energy security for our country, and holding our elected officials more accountable in shaping energy policies.[[iii]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn3)”

Note the use of the words “community of concerned citizens” to promote the appearance of grassroots activity at a national level. The Energy Forum also spreads out to 22 individual states[[iv]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn4) with nearly identical websites covering the same issues with the same talking points.

Other API front groups and websites include Energy Citizens; We are Energy Nation and Energy Tomorrow.

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In the spirit of flag waving, API via America’s Energy Forum created yet another group of front groups were created in 2013 and goes by the name Vets4Energy[[v]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn5). Per API press release dated July 10, 2013[[vi]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn6):

The Vets4Energy campaign is a non-partisan coalition of citizens committed to achieving energy security and holding elected officials accountable in shaping energy policies.

Vets4Energy began by primarily focusing on the Keystone XL Pipeline issue and acted as a Spokesgroup for API and TransCanada. Later Vets4Energy have increased activities to include all fossil fuel activities.

The Vets4Energy website footer states “Site sponsored by America’s Energy Forum ….“ and is identical to the legalese verbiage on all of America’s Energy Forum websites. As with America’s Energy Forum’s structure, Vets4Energy also has state front groups.

Non-Profit Grassroots

Vets4Energy is not listed as a non-profit by the IRS, meaning it’s not required to file public tax forms and thus difficult to follow the money.

Retired Rear Adm. Don Loren, Liason and Advisor for Vets4Energy, described his group as a grassroots organization of veterans who have volunteered to share their point of view that energy policy and national security are inexorably linked.

However, Loren also acknowledged that his group gets funding from the American Petroleum Institute, but said it represents an independent voice from veterans who believe in the issue[[vii]](https://frackorporation.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/american-petroleum-institute-clones/#_edn7).

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Donald Loren has been appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans and Posture, replacing the Acting Deputy Assistant, Amanda Dory.

Over the course of his career, the former U.S. Navy rear admiral has served the U.S. government for more than 40 years. He was raised in Massapequa, N.Y., by a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, and he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1974. He would spend 31 years in the military, and his military credits include tours as the commander of a guided missile frigate and a destroyer squadron, staff officer in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, staff officer with U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, and on the Joint Staff, and with the office of the Secretary of Defense.

In 2007, Loren was appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security Integration, where he coordinated the Department of Defense’s strategic planning and policy development, capability and resource assessment, strategic communications, congressional activities and educational issues related to homeland security and emergency response.

Loren left the administration in 2009 and turned to the private sector, where he worked as an advisor to government consultants. He was president and CEO of Old Dominion Strategies, LLC, from 2012 until 2017, until the Trump administration named him as the Veterans Affairs assistant secretary for Operations, Security and Preparedness. This position was eliminated in a departmental reorganization in September 2018.

In his new role, Loren will coordinate, schedule, analyze, execute and record In-Progress Review of Campaign and Contingency Plans for the Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He will also formulate, coordinate, publish and promulgate Strategic Guidance Statements where short-term changes to the strategic environment require significant alteration of the Secretary of Defense direction. He will advise the Secretary of Defense on discrete planning events where rapid changes to the strategic environment require immediate, and formulate and coordinate Global Defense Posture strategy and policy. The position also calls for Loren to lead DOD efforts to develop standards for assessment and strategic communication as applied to campaign support plans....

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keystone XL isn’t pumping oil yet — and may never be — but in the Washington, D.C., political industry it’s already a gusher.

The TransCanada pipeline has been stuck in limbo for over half a decade now; last month, President Barack Obama again postponed a decision on the project, likely until after the 2014 elections.

Yet in just a few years, the political debate over Keystone has exploded into an entire sector of the Washington influence economy. Funded by multibillion-dollar oil companies, labor unions and ultrarich environmentalists, the fight has filtered into every crack and crevice of the nation’s capital — all for a project some advocates on both sides privately concede wouldn’t be an environmental or economic game-changer.

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From advertisements blanketing Metro stops near Capitol Hill and the State Department to TV commercials saturating the Sunday morning talk shows, to print and digital promos in this publication and others, Keystone has been virtually omnipresent. Well over 100 lobbyists have registered to lobby the issue. Top consultants from Obama’s campaigns have signed up on both sides. The pro-pipeline American Petroleum Institute holds regular war councils to plot strategy and has shelled out millions promoting the project; just this week, API spent more than $50,000 on radio ads promoting Keystone in states with competitive 2014 Senate races.

Longtime Beltway operators say the scope of the Keystone battle has grown to an astonishing scale — perhaps the largest ever for a standoff over energy and the environment, and at the very least one that rivals the years-long and decades-old fights over acid rain and Arctic drilling.

The largely symbolic nature of the Keystone issue makes the titanic spending involved all the more striking. Political observers and even some industry officials and activists question all the activity surrounding a project that — according to many estimates — wouldn’t create more than a few dozen permanent jobs or exacerbate climate change in a significant way.

That means this whole advocacy campaign is probably just a small down payment on what the country will see when the harder-edged energy issues — strict new power plant regulations expected from the administration this summer, or a renewed legislative debate on climate change — come into focus in the months and years ahead.

( Also on POLITICO: Little hope for Keystone vote)

“All of this stuff has been through an arms race,” said Carl Pope, the former Sierra Club chief who has had a front-row seat for decades of environmental fights. “The biggest battles we fought used a fraction of the resources.”

For all the money flowing into the Keystone issue, said David Tamasi, a senior vice president at Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, there is “little space for new information or arguments” in the debate at this point.

“It’s become almost easier for the president and project proponents to fall into a comfortable partisan crouch, because the issue has been so defined along political fault lines,” said Tamasi, whose firm worked for a time on Keystone for the government of Alberta.

It’s difficult to pin down the exact cost of the Keystone saga, since nonprofit and private-sector advocacy groups don’t have to disclose their revenue and spending like conventional political campaigns. But the sum is clearly well into the tens of millions of dollars — and because the pipeline project remains frozen in place, that makes almost everyone involved in the political debate a winner.

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Besides bankrolling TV ads and hiring an army of lobbyists, advocates on both sides of the Keystone fight have spent millions mobilizing the public — or at least creating the illusion of mass mobilization.

On the pro-pipeline side, that has meant setting up an array of self-described “grass-roots” groups with generic-sounding names — the API-funded entities Energy Nation and Energy Citizens, for example — to build public support through social media, advertising and petitions.

Nebraskans for Jobs & Energy Independence is another such entity. It was set up ostensibly as a vehicle for native Nebraskans to channel their support for building the pipeline. But the group’s ties to national organizations lobbying for the pipeline’s approval are extensive.

It was founded by a local labor official with LIUNA, the national builders union that supports Keystone; Michael Whatley, a lobbyist and executive for the Texas-based Consumer Energy Alliance, sits on the organizing group’s board. NJEI once listed a TransCanada official as an officer in its tax documents (that official is no longer affiliated with the group).

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Barry Rubin, a former head of the Nebraska Democratic Party and the pro-pipeline group’s vice chairman, was candid about its role.

“Are we a front group for building the pipeline? Sure, proud to be,” he said in an interview.

Not all the front groups, shell entities and opulently funded “grass-roots” organizations are quite so blunt about their advocacy. API, the industry group with virtually unlimited resources, has established a slew of organizations aimed at drumming up Keystone support; API’s president, Jack Gerard, was inspired by the Obama campaign’s savvy Web and voter-mobilization operations, according to an aide.

API boasts a more than 23 million-person “grass-roots network” made up of individuals who have spoken or written on behalf of the industry, though it’s unclear how API arrived at that number. Groups such as Energy Citizens promote API talking points on their websites and tout testimonials that support the industry’s views on oil and gas. (Obama “needs to get off his hands on this issue,” wrote Joe B. from Colorado.)

Among the groups funded by API is Vets4Energy, which API says has 1,400 members (citing privacy concerns, the group declined to provide a member list) and has recruited veterans to press for the pipeline on Capitol Hill. Another is Oil Sands Fact Check, a group that aggressively rebuts assertions that the pipeline would cause environmental devastation. The latter group, run through the firm FTI Consulting, often sends representatives to anti-Keystone protests and emails reporters to highlight low attendance numbers.

Vets4Energy organized a recent pro-Keystone news conference with Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry and North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. Both Republicans demanded action on the pipeline in front of a small handful of reporters — and a throng of Keystone-backing veterans associated with the group.

“The greatest generation conquered Nazi Germany in a little over four years,” Terry said. “But here we are, five years after the permits have been filed to build the Keystone XL pipeline, and we’re still waiting.”

Keystone foes with smaller budgets have nevertheless established national operations of comparable sophistication, often hiring brand-name Democratic firms to help. They have coordinated activities between national groups like the League of Conservation Voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and activist organizations like environmentalist Bill McKibben’s 350.org — often with the help of nationally known political consultants. McKibben’s group has paid thousands of dollars to the liberal PR firm FitzGibbon Media to amplify its message.

On its website, powerhouse Democratic firm Global Strategy Group touts its role in creating an umbrella coalition of anti-Keystone interests, dubbed All Risk, No Reward, which has held events and run television ads opposing the pipeline.

Acknowledging that “public opinion on [Keystone] is very mixed,” GSG’s online case study states: “GSG organized opportunities for experts to speak directly with top reporters and media outlets, planned and executed several high profile events, and earned top flight coverage in the nation’s most prominent print and broadcast media.”

Lower-profile groups have played an influential role in the pipeline fight: The progressive Bold Nebraska worked with state landowners to challenge Keystone’s intended route, while an eclectic collection of environmental and tribal groups calling itself the Cowboy and Indian Alliance gathered for an April protest on the National Mall — complete with teepees and horses.

It’s all come a long way since 2008, when McKibben and a band of activists based at Vermont’s Middlebury College started 350.org to advocate for action on climate change. Since then, McKibben has helped organize protests against the pipeline in front of the White House that have resulted in well over 1,000 arrests.

“Everyone is working together in a pretty unprecedented way,” McKibben said, calling the collaboration across diverse groups “the greatest joy of the whole fight, since we’re badly going to need unity for all the battles against the fossil fuel industry to come.”

The consulting ‘arms race’

With the fight over Keystone now more than five years old — TransCanada filed its first permit application in 2008 — it’s almost harder to find a consultant or lobbyist in Washington who hasn’t been involved than one who is.

Since 2009, advocates directly employed by TransCanada have reported $6.7 million in lobbying expenses related to Keystone. (A TransCanada official said after the publication of this story that $3.8 million was spent exclusively on the pipeline, as opposed to the broader TransCanada agenda.) A second Canadian entity, the In Situ Oil Sands Alliance, has reported spending $1.7 million.

But those sums only begin to approach the total cost of the Keystone lobbying campaign, since many interest groups — including companies such as Shell and Exxon, and umbrella organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — disclose massive, unitemized lobbying expenses, with Keystone just one of the many issues their advocates address.

API, for example, has disclosed spending $22 million in lobbying reports that include Keystone as a target issue. For the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, that figure was nearly $15 million.

Pipeline opponents have spent a fraction of those totals, but the expenses still run into the millions: The League of Conservation Voters, League of Women Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council and National Wildlife Federation spent a combined $3.1 million on lobbying campaigns that touched on Keystone.

The pro-Keystone coalition includes some of the most prominent names in Washington influence, including former Reagan White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein and former Michigan Gov. John Engler, both registered to lobby on behalf of Keystone for the Business Roundtable, and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist. Former Democratic Reps. Allen Boyd of Florida, John Tanner of Tennessee and Michael Arcuri of New York are all registered pro-Keystone lobbyists.

At the heart of the operation is API, the deep-pocketed industry alliance that employs a long list of lobbyists, along with an unknown number of consultants who are said to sign nondisclosure agreements keeping all their API work strictly confidential. Two lobbyists connected to the Keystone fight said API holds regular huddles with a collection of interested groups, looping in powerful interests like the Chamber, Business Roundtable, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and National Association of Manufacturers.

TransCanada and its Canadian allies have thrown money at a number of D.C. firms, including white-shoe lobbying outfits like Bryan Cave LLP and Dutko, and the Democratic super-PR firm SKDKnickerbocker, which includes former White House communications director Anita Dunn and former Clinton-Gore adman Bill Knapp among its partners. This week, CEA released polling from the Democratic firm Hickman Analytics showing public support for Keystone in Iowa, Michigan, Montana and New Hampshire.

What Keystone opponents lack in lobbying muscle — they largely rely on the in-house lobbyists of national environmental groups — they make up for with a lineup of political consultants that looks like the roster of a presidential campaign.

Some literally are right off the roster of a presidential campaign: Steyer’s group hired Obama-linked companies like the TV firm GMMB and the pollsters at Benenson Strategy Group to plan a national advocacy campaign. The GSG team that worked for the League of Conservation Voters on organizing the All Risk, No Reward coalition included former White House spokesman Bill Burton; that coalition, in turn, has hired the Democratic firm New Partners to do its PR.

The finances of many anti-Keystone groups are opaque, but at least some of them have benefited from Steyer’s largesse: In 2013, LCV received $500,000 from a group funded by the hedge fund mogul, according to Federal Election Commission reports. In September, NextGen Climate Action gave $30,00 to the Chesapeake Climate Leadership Alliance and $125,000 to the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, the political arms of two anti-Keystone groups that recently co-sponsored the Cowboys and Indians protest.

Pope, the former Sierra Club head, said that these days it’s far easier for groups of all sizes to engage in grass-roots mobilization — real or manufactured — thanks to social media. They’re not collecting petition signatures by hand anymore: “We had to have people with clipboards in parks,” Pope recalled.

The air war

Keystone wouldn’t be a full-fledged Washington advocacy fight without plenty of television commercials — many of them aimed squarely at the D.C. market. As much as the players on all sides of Keystone want to marshal public opinion in their favor, the ad spending reveals who their real audience is.

Both TransCanada and Steyer’s anti-Keystone vehicle bought ample Beltway airtime, particularly during the all-important Sunday morning talk shows. NextGen spent $340,000 on local broadcast airtime last September to run 90-second ads over the course of several Sundays, according to information shared by the tracking firm MunKato ADvantage. The group also bought national cable ads during that time, including CNN on Sundays.

TransCanada answered the spending a month later, putting about $300,000 into local broadcast and cable TV ads in October, according to MKAD.

The company says it launched the first paid media in its history in 2011 to combat opposition to the pipeline and estimates it has done 3,500 interviews with reporters since 2010. Over the course of 2013, the Canadian company spent approximately $700,000 in the all-important Washington media market; this year, it has already shelled out an additional $159,000 to reach viewers in the nation’s capital.

Both entities — TransCanada and NextGen — have purchased airtime elsewhere but in markedly lower volumes. (A recent NextGen ad campaign targeting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio cost about $7,000, MKAD said.)

The behemoth on the airwaves is API: Since 2012, the group has spent more than $18 million on local broadcast and cable television advertising, pushing a range of industry priorities including Keystone and reaching markets from Little Rock to Pittsburgh to Sioux Falls, the MKAD numbers show.

But many of the API ads have been straightforward Keystone advocacy spots aimed directly at D.C. The group spent more than a quarter-million dollars pushing Keystone on Washington local broadcast and cable — in July 2013 alone.

Unlike NextGen, which discloses its political vendors in FEC reports, API is under no such obligation. There’s little doubt, though, that a handful of GOP media firms have profited handsomely.

The ads have likely helped push public opinion at least modestly in favor of the pipeline: A Pew survey released in March showed that 61 percent of Americans support the project.

But that’s only slightly higher than in March of 2012, when 57 percent of Americans told Gallup they favored building Keystone — and Mitt Romney featured the pipeline in his first general election ad.

“What would a Romney presidency look like?” the ad began. “Day One: President Romney immediately approves the Keystone Pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked.”

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