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The following is part of a document drafted by Ann Green Communications, Bayer's Press Relations firm, following the explosion.  It was part of additional documents released at April 21, 2009 investigation by the House Committee on Commerce and Energy’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.  

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DRAFT 1 (12-29-08), Community Relations Strategy, Bayer CropScience Institute Plant

REVIEW OF PRIMARY ISSUES

The old "People Concerned About MIC" activist group, established in the after math of Bhopal, has been reactivated with an ominous new leader, Maya Nye. Ms. Nye is the daughter of a Union Carbide retiree and appears to have animosity towards the chemical industry. She has taken an adversarial approach from the beginning and is not retreating. Older and more cooperative past leaders of the group[...]have chosen to take a back seat to the more aggressive new leadership. Ms. Nye promises to bring in outside agitators - something the older leaders had, heretofore~ not been willing to do. Ms. Nye also has stated publicly she intends to campaign for the removal of MIC and phosgene from the site.

 

 COMMUNITY RELATIONS STRATEGY

Our goal with People Concerned About MIC should be to marginalize them 

[emphasis added].  Build the stronger ties with the rest of the Kanawha Valley, keep operations safe, rebuild confidence in emergency response communications, and the activists will become irrelevant [emphasis added]. This is especially true in a difficult economy where good jobs mean so much to the area. Interaction with People Concerned should be kept in the public arena where they cannot distort the facts.  Treat them civilly so observers will not feel the need to come to their defense. Allow them to seem uncivil. Local citizens have, historically, not supported fanatical, negative activism [emphasis added].

 

You can read the rest of the document at http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090421/emergencydocs.pdf.  Page 69 is where Ann Green Communications- Community Relations Strategy begins.  




 

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