'Misinformation' putting fledgling industry at risk ENERGY: The head of ConocoPhillips's Australian operations has warned that "well-funded and organised" activists and domestic gas reservation policies could curtail Western Australia's fledgling unconventional oil and gas industry. Todd Creeger, the president of ConocoPhillips in Australia, yesterday said the industry needed to work hard to stop the spread of "misinformation" about unconventional oil and gas and, in particular, the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.