WTF This is just all wrong Who are they trying to appease or scared of

https://www.cbs7.com/2020/12/11/nor...MReCnyNOi7X7qDg922NiOJk5FwyGIyOj1wpi-jxY

ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - Innovex Downhole Solutions says it was recently denied an order of jackets by The North Face, a popular outdoor recreation company because they are in the oil and gas business.

“I was surprised but not surprised if that makes sense,” Innovex CEO Adam Anderson said.

Innovex is based in Houston and has nearly 100 workers in the Permian Basin.

Each year, the company gets a Christmas gift for its employees. This year, it was supposed to be a North Face jacket with an Innovex logo, a company Innovex has ordered gear from in the past.

The company providing the jackets said The North Face doesn’t want to support the oil and gas industry in the same way they’d reject the porn industry or tobacco industry.

“They told us we did not meet their brand standards,” Anderson said. “We were separately informed that what that really meant is was that we were an oil and gas company.”

The irony of The North Face denying service to an industry that provides its ability to make and sell its products isn’t lost, either.

“The recreational activities they encourage are all ones that require hydrocarbons to make the products, to provide the means to get to whatever activity folks want to perform,” Anderson said. “It’s just so intertwined with everything that we do.”


Everything is right. It’s a position Anderson wants to convey to The North Face and the rest of the world. So, he responded to The North Face via LinkedIn, penning a 4-page letter about the oil and gas industry’s importance to modern life. It quickly went viral.

“Hydrocarbons are important not only to energy but to most the products we consume and utilize today,” Anderson said.

Innovex still got the jackets but through a different outdoor recreation company.

CBS7 reached out to The North Face for comment via phone, email, Twitter, and Facebook, but they have not responded.

Anderson isn’t mad but hopes the situation can help create a dialogue about oil and gas’s importance.

“I think there’s a view out there in the world that’s increasing that says, ‘Oil and gas are bad,’” he said. “And I just fundamentally disagree with that view in every dimension.”

how does Assface make their products or ship them? How do their workers get to work?


This chit irks me to no end....but these days what doesn't............I want to go off grid too.

All the heads of these hip outdoor companies are the same - once THEY get the big house and the jet, they start virtue signaling and try to influence the opinions of the masses.

I wonder if any part of those jackets are made from oil.... my guess is they are.

Never bought anything from North Face and don't plan on doing it now.

Windmill power for North Face factories. Hypocrites will still buy their political gear.

F...... them. I'll will no longer buy anything that they produce.

If you stand still and turn 360 degrees 99.9% of everything you see was made from, made using or transported by petroleum hydrocarbons. The ignorance of such a large number of our populous is just scary.

Here are the first two jackets that pulled up on their web site.

This should not surprise anyone.

The North Face is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF_Corporation. Think inclusivity and equality!

And if you want to be so virtuous against oil, it's probably best if you go into the woods to reboot your life. Start *from scratch*. Walk there, naked, and take nothing with you. Do not leave the woods for anything. You're strong and smart, you got this!

Pizz on em’. Average products at high prices anyway, no thanks.

Right. And I wouldn't be surprised if they're anti-gun/hunting. Though I bet they sell products with camo patterns.

My favorite jacket is north face. I burned up all my gift cards one year at BPS to get it too. This was before meeting TexasLefty. He opened my eyes to how I spend $ and where I spend it.

This pizzes me off.

I have never owned or wanted anything from the north face. A lot of the "cool kids" wore it and bought it... maybe less people should do what the cool kids are doing. Doesnt really surprise me at all.

Man ain't that the truth

I wonder if North Face would support legalized prostitution.....

Bought my first Northface coat in about 1977 at an outdoor place in Dalworthington Gardens. Had never seen the brand before.
It was a great coat.

This nonsense is pure hypocrisy.

What surprises me....................
Is the ignorance, of the production, of the very product
they make and sell....................

Make a post on their FB page, I did.

yep, i do fine with my $35 jacket from TSC.

They keep that up BHA will drop Patagonia and pick up North face!

A very similar story circulated a couple of years ago.