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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: January 23, 2015, 6:09 pm
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01/23/2015 02:22 PM
Wow! Europe's Renewable Energy Associations Dominated By Fossil
Interests
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Europe has been the most aggressive, reliable advocate on
addressing climate change and moving to renewable energy, but
now, even the motives of their trade associations have to be
questioned.
The Guardian reports that Europe's major solar and wind
associations have been taken over by fossil fuel companies and
utilities that want to slow down renewable energy growth.
Full article here:
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: March 30, 2015, 4:52 pm
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One Man Working Behind-the-Scenes to Halt Oklahoma Wind Energy
Matt Kasper
March 30, 2015
Oklahoma has quietly become the 4th largest wind producing state
in America after jumping several states in the rankings over the
past few years. The panhandle and the northeastern part of the
state have been seen as promising areas for further development,
with strong winds and nearby transmission lines that enable
cheap, clean electricity.
However, that was before one wealthy and influential landowner
started spending big to single-handedly organize a campaign to
halt future wind development.
Frank Robson
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a
multi-millionaire real estate developer, entered the wind energy
debate last year when he found out a wind farm was planned near
his ranch in Centralia, Okla. In those initial conversations,
Robson was using the rhetoric of “NIMBYism”
(not-in-my-back-yard). “Most people don’t move to the country to
have an industrial unit right next to their house. How would you
like to have a 495-foot turbine that goes whoosh, whoosh,
whoosh, whoosh, and never shuts down?” Robson told the local NPR
affiliate. Never mind that most farmers and ranchers like wind
turbines just fine, along with the drought-resistant cash flow
that they produce on 20- to 25-year contracts.
Robson’s efforts to push back against wind energy developments
in Oklahoma led him to hire lobbyists. One firm hired, FKG
Consulting
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/>is the largest lobbying firm in the state. FKG Consulting
supplied Robson with a small army of consultants including a
pollster, and devised a strategy that has transformed Robson’s
image from angry wealthy landowner to tax consumer advocate.
Robson’s consultants transformed his message by halting the
NIMBY talk, and devised a plan to go after tax incentives that
support wind; a cause polling showed would be more compelling to
the public. Robson has also hired a local marketing expert, who
then started a group called “Wind Waste,”
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/> to pull the incentives that wind energy receives in the state
out of context.
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FKG Consulting also represents multiple national and
international clients in Oklahoma that have publically expressed
a commitment to support renewable energy and/or sustainability
development. Among them are Amazon, 3M, and Ernst & Young.
Additionally, since Robson has become more interested in ending
any wind energy future for all of Oklahoma, he has stepped up
his political giving; half of his recorded contributions to
elected officials have come since 2014.
Frank Robson Wind Oklahoma (picture at link).
Robson’s work
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/>and money seemed to be paying off, when Sen. President Pro
Tempore Brian Bingman authored a measure last year that would
have placed a moratorium on wind development in northeastern
Oklahoma. The bill was then run by then state senate energy
chair, Cliff Branan, who received $4,500 in political
contributions about a month-and-a-half after the bill began
making its way through the senate in 2014. When the bill
stalled, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) took up the
endeavor at the request of Mr. Bingman and is currently
considering restrictive new standards for wind farm locations.
In addition to the OCC’s deliberations, the Oklahoma Senate
recently unanimously passed two bills to limit wind energy tax
incentives. SB 498 and SB 501, authored by Sen. Mike Mazzei,
target separate wind energy incentives: a tax exemption for
manufacturing used by wind companies; and an annual decrease for
zero-emission tax credits over five years. Mazzei has said these
bills are necessary because the state is facing a $600 million
budget gap. Robson used similar language in an op-ed last month
– a change in talking points, for someone who got involved
because of concerns about wind turbines in the view of his
ranch.
Both bills have had their two required public readings, and were
referred to Oklahoma’s House Appropriations and Budget Committee
on March 17.
Ties to Wal-Mart
Robson is the brother-in-law to the late Sam Walton, founder of
Wal-Mart. The irony is that Wal-Mart has announced plans to go
100% renewable by 2030. Oklahoma wind energy will likely need to
play a role in Wal-Mart’s impressive endeavor, since several of
its distribution centers are located in the state.
[b]
Oklahoma’s History of Support for Wind Energy[/b]
While Robson tries to fight the development of wind in his
state, the state has long supported this industry. This support
has resulted in other major employers such as Google moving into
the state because of its favorable environment for power
purchase agreements. And despite Robson’s claims to the
contrary, wind has contributed to the health of the state’s
economy, with jobs and tax revenues.
In 2012, a large Google data center in Pryor, Oklahoma entered
into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority to procure
wind energy. Both Oklahoma University (OU) and Oklahoma State
University (OSU) have made historic wind energy agreements as
well. OU signed an agreement with Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Company (OG&E) to purchase 100% of its OG&E supplied electricity
from renewable energy sources. And a majority of OSU’s
electricity comes from wind energy provided by OG&E.
The state added 648 megawatts of wind capacity last year
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for a total of 3,782 megawatts, passing both Oregon and Illinois
in the rankings. Another 2,000 megawatts is expected to come
online in the near future, as wind farms start to begin
construction in the panhandle and northeastern part of the
state.
The Oklahoma wind industry now contributes significantly to
record-breaking generating outputs in the Southwest Power Pool
(SPP), an area that includes Oklahoma, along with Nebraska,
Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In
fact, SPP wind set a record earlier this year with 7,625
megawatts of wind generation – enough to power 6 million homes.
Furthermore, wind in the SPP saves customers $1.2 billion each
year due to avoided coal and natural gas fuel costs, in addition
to water savings.
The progress in Oklahoma is a major factor to wind energy’s
nearing cost-parity, the point when it can compete with fossil
fuels without federal incentives. But because Robson does not
want to see wind turbines while on his ranch, that momentum is
in serious jeopardy.
Thousands of direct and indirect jobs in Oklahoma are in peril,
along with millions of dollars in future land lease payments and
private investments – dollars and jobs that would likely move to
Colorado, Kansas, or Texas, if Oklahoma eliminates its current
smart public policies that support wind energy.
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Agelbert NOTE: Wind energy’s cost-parity, the point when it can
compete with fossil fuels without federal incentives, is the
REAL reason that the fossil fuelers are going all out to stop
this Renewable energy that threatens the centralized energy
"business model"
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of the
fossil fuelers.
In fact, Wind Energy passed that point over three years ago!
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The reason it is
not apparent is that it is MASKED BY ALL THE MASSIVE VISIBLE AND
INVISIBLE FOSSIL FUEL "SUBSIDIES" (welfare queen handouts on the
taxpayer dime) that make wind energy subsides look like PEANUTS.
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The hypocrisy of these bastards is breathtaking.
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/>Those are the very people that claim they "just want the most
competitive energy product for everybody"
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Renewable energy=
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: April 1, 2015, 1:30 pm
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ANOTHER fossil fuel fascsist ([i]THEY [img width=58
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WHAT PROFIT OVER PLANET RICH PIGS DO... [/i]
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Harold Hamm
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(MKing's
hero ;D) is pictured above. Any similarity with his surname, a
ham and his face is purely coincidental. ;D
Oil and Gas Billionaire Pressured Oklahoma Scientist to Ignore
Fracking-Earthquake Link
Anastasia Pantsios | April 1, 2015 9:34 am
SNIPPET:
Hillary Clinton’s emails aren’t the only ones making news, at
least not in Oklahoma.
A trove of emails were released by the Oklahoma Geological
Survey (OGS), which regulates the state’s oil and gas
industries, in response to public records requests from news
outlets such as Bloomberg and EnergyWire.
They appear to reveal that oil and gas billionaire Harold Hamm,
known as the founding father of the U.S. fracking boom [img
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/>inserted himself into the conversation about whether fracking
was causing a dramatic upsurge in earthquakes in the state.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: April 25, 2015, 5:22 pm
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[quote]Bernard Eastlund's discoveries, are innovative
applications of the work of Tesla and Faraday. His plans to
provide power on any spot on the planet, to modify weather and
eliminate drought, floods and hurricanes was usurped by the US
military to make a death ray. >:([/quote]
The HAARP facility in Gakona, Alaska has shut down pending its
transfer to a different contractor working for DARPA. The
official statement reads:
HAARP was shut down in early May 2013, awaiting a change between
contractors who operate the facility. According to HAARP program
manager James Keeney, "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) is expected on site as a client to finish up some
research in fall 2013 and winter 2014." The temporary shutdown
was described as being due to "a contractor regime change." The
Alaska Native corporation Ahtna, Incorporated is reportedly in
talks to take over the facility administration contract from
Marsh Creek, LLC.
Supporters of the HAARP program now say that claims of crazy
weather patterns, earthquakes and mental illness can no longer
be blamed on the operation of this remote facility because it is
"off-line".
It is a fact that the HAARP facility in Gakona was only a
public relations facade which distracted from the larger
facility near Fairbanks and the many other "ionospheric heaters"
located around the country -- and the world -- that no longer
use dipole antennae farms and receive their funding as "black
projects", exempt from public scrutiny or review.
We featured such a facility in China in a recent story on
viewzone. The new antennae designs are apparently more efficient
at the high frequencies which the "heaters" utilize.
[font=arial black]
Introduction to H.A.A.R.P.[/font]
by Dan Eden
Many articles have been written about HAARP. What this author
wishes to make clear is that he believes HAARP was not the
actual facility designed to be used as a military system but a
"front" or "red herring" facility which allows the authorities
to deny important questions about its purpose and operation and
which conducted basic research with its limited power of about
3MW.
The real facility is located in Poker Flats, North of
Fairbanks, Alaska. Please read the Congressional Executive
Summary which is provided here in unedited form for the truth.
Some background on HAARP & How it works
Albert Einstein's theories of relativity and the development of
atomic energy are seen as the pinnacles of Twentieth Century
technology. Like most innovative applications of newly
discovered laws of physics, the benefit that they afford the
common citizen is often usurped by the sinister need of the
military to kill each other or ruin the environment -- all in
the name of security. :evil4:
Bernard Eastlund's discoveries, are innovative applications of
the work of Tesla and Faraday. His plans to provide power on any
spot on the planet, to modify weather and eliminate drought,
floods and hurricanes was usurped by the US military to make a
death ray.
Bernard Eastlund is a very private man and a physicist with a
small company in Houston. In the mid-80's, Eastlund invented and
patented a technology that will will reshape our lives, for
better or for worse, whether we like it or not.
A few years ago, ViewZone ran a photograph that was sent to us
for identification (see Unusual Photographs). We received many
wild explanations, from underground alien bases to ancient city
streets. But a handful of anonymous e-mails were consistent.
These described the long, parallel, perfectly straight lines as
part of an antenna complex used to communicate with submerged
submarines. These same e-mails spoke of "death rays" that could
blast distant locations with lethal electromagnetic radiation.
The photograph was eventually believed to be an ELF (an acronym
for Extremely Low Frequency) antenna installation, designed for
submarine communication. There is one almost identical to the
photograph in Michigan. Since our anonymous informants seemed to
be so knowledgeable, we were curious about their claims of a
"death ray" installation located somewhere in Alaska. Our
informants directed our attention to something called HAARP
(High Frequency Active Aurora Ionospheric Research Program).
HAARP is a military project based on Eastlund's discoveries. It
is a difficult program to discuss technically with
non-scientists and, as such, it has eluded the spotlight of the
popular press. But for years now, conspiracy web sites and some
credible scientific publications have questioned what's going on
and how messing with the ionosphere could be hurting the
environment.
To make matters worse, HAARP has been maintained partially as a
clandestine project, operated by the US Navy. The information
that is made available to the public is carefully worded to make
HAARP appear as a bland, harmless, unclassified, atmospheric
research facility.
This public image is maintained, in part, through a website
(Note: It appears they have taken the web site "off-line"
also!), complete with a reassuring, updated, digital photograph,
showing dozens of motionless aluminum dipole antennae at their
remote Alaskan base. Public statements speak about "better
understanding the ionosphere," a layer of Earth's atmosphere
about 60-90 Km. high.
They are polite when questioned, but stick to their "harmless
research" stories, despite contradictions in the press and in
publicly available documents. In preparation for this article,
ViewZone contacted HAARP. Not only did they deny that the
facility was doing military work, but they also diminished the
work of Dr. Eastlund, implying that he knew very little about
his own discovery. (In contrast to now admitting that they do
DARPA work.)
Eventually everyone will know about Bernard Eastlund and his
work. It will someday be taught in schools. His technology will
impact every living thing. But this will have to wait for the
military, who own his valuable patents, to release Eastlund's
work for humane applications. For the time being, this work is
buried in the secretive work of HAARP.
To completely understand Eastlund's work, you must first
understand how and why HAARP works. This is not an easy task.
But we'll try to keep it simple.
Posted 16th February 2014 by Sagar
Labels: सूचना
प्रविधि
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[b]Agelbert NOTE:[/b] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency focused on the
condition of the oceans and the atmosphere.
BUT FOR SOME INTERESTING REASON, H.A.A.R.P is run by Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: April 25, 2015, 6:01 pm
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[center]What Do We Want To See? [/center]
The vision behind the Transition Town movement is that every
community can engage its collective creativity to unleash an
extraordinary and historic transition to a future beyond fossil
fuels; a future that is more vibrant, abundant and resilient;
one that is ultimately preferable to the present.
What does that look like? What do the people who are active in
the Transition Network really envision for the future of their
towns, if the transition they are working to create becomes
reality?
They all envision something much more humane.
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Cities that are much
quieter, much cleaner, much slower, more people working closer
to home. They talk about strong bonds around food, knowing your
local farmer, growing your own food. Everything is much more
decentralized. Alternative energy supplies the grid. The whole
economy is much more local and society is more equitable.
Quality of life skyrockets. [img width=100
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The Transition approach is very much a study of permaculture in
itself. It asks not: How can we make sure people take action the
way we know they ought to and grow food, start composting,
install solar panels, etc?" No, it asks: what is already going
on in this town and how can we maximize the interchange and
benefit of all the commerce and activity already in motion -
regardless of people's views, politics, awareness of energy
issues and so on?
Ben Brangwyn, co founder of the Transition Network says he
believes "When we look back, having reached that transition
point, we will say: How on earth could we ever have conceived of
living any other way? (see Agelbert NOTE for answer. ;))"
--Bibi Farber
For more information on the Transition Town Movement, visit
www.transitionnetwork.org
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Agelbert NOTE: WE DIDN'T "conceive" of [s]living[/s] dying for
elite greed; WE-THE-PEOPLE were Bernaysed into accepting the CON
JOB of profit over planet CENTRALIZED POWER as the "real world",
PERIOD. The odds of Homo SAPDOM surviving the greedy, biosphere
math challenged predators among us are NOT GOOD. [img width=100
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: May 10, 2015, 9:23 pm
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In fossil fuel industry board rooms in undisclosed locations,
strategy sessions are being held to accomplish a trifecta.
1. Avoid litigation that would result in forcing them to pay for
the massive enevironmental damage they are responsible for over
the last 120 years.
2. Enjoy a 20 year (at least) profit bonanza from a guaranteed
massive price hike for fossil fuels due to massive global
cooling.
3. Regain their fraudulent 20th century title of "savior" of
civilization while blaming all the environemtnal problems on
another dirty energy explosive/source.
The secret memo that may have already been disseminated to their
bought and paid for political lackeys is this:
We all know that war is good for business, but NUCLEAR WAR is
even better. Not only will we no longer have to endure silly
talk about global warming, we will have guaranteed profits for
at least two decades! The price spike from nuclear war will be
turn into a price spike on steroids with the nuclear winter.
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During that time the population can be convinced we are their
saviors while we strangle other energy producing upstarts like
solar and wind with legislation that "defends the people from
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Nuclear War will be the biggest propaganda bonanza we have ever
had. We will no longer be restrained in our prudent, measured,
logical, do the math, exploitation of earth's resources for the
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[color=brown][size=14pt][b][i]So get moving and start that saber
rattling!
We want NUCLEAR WINTER ASAP!
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THE AFTERMATH OF NUCLEAR WAR ACCORDING TO THE STUDY
Year 0
Five megatons of black carbon released into the atmosphere,
which absorbs sunlight and begins to cool the planet. Black
carbon rain also kills millions.
Year 1
Average surface temperature drops by 1°C (2°F).
Year 2
Crop growing season is shortened by 10 to 40 days.
Year 5
Earth is an average of 1.5°C (3°F) colder than the present day,
colder than it has been in 1,000 years. There is also nine per
cent less rainfall. The ozone is also up to 25 per cent thinner,
increasing UV rays on Earth.
Year 10
Ozone recovers slightly to just 8 per cent less than modern day.
Year 20
Planet warms slightly to 0.5°C (1°F) lower than the present day.
Year 26
Rainfall increases to about 4.5 per cent less than today
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Agelbert NOTE: They left a MINOR DETAIL OUT. The price of FOSSIL
FUELS WILL GO TO THE MOON AND STAY THERE. Nuclear war is insane,
stupid and suicidal. But so is the fossil fuel industry. They
have a TRACK RECORD of ignoring, and indeed fostering, climate
and human health damaging activities while making us pay the
price. So do not be surprized if they think NUCLEAR WAR is a
"GOOD DEAL" for them, no matter what they say in public.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: May 18, 2015, 2:19 pm
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[move][font=courier]Shell Oil Caught Planning for Deadly 4 to 6
Degree Rise in Global Temperature [/font][/move]
byericlewis
Whoopsies ;). From The Guardian:
Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that
would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an
internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C,
twice the level considered safe for the planet.
A paper used for guiding future business planning at the
Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions
will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the
internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding,
famine and desertification.
Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by
the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to
a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later
to 6C.
...
The Shell document says: “Both our (oceans and mountains)
scenarios and the IEA New Policies scenario (and our base case
energy demand and outlook) do not limit emissions to be
consistent with the back-calculated 450 parts per million (Co2
in the atmosphere) 2 degrees C.”
It adds: “We also do not see governments taking steps now that
are consistent with 2 degrees C scenario.”
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Surely there's nothing Shell itself could do to try to mitigate
global warming. They're just planning realistically for our
future! [img width=80
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But seriously, this is disgusting. It shows callous disregard
for the planet and all its inhabitants.
Contact Shell and tell them to change their plans:
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Mail: P.O. Box 2463, Houston, TX 77252 (Shell Oil Company)
Shell U.S. Switchboard: 713-241-6161 (all Shell U.S. companies)
US Shareholder Services: 888-737-2377
Shell U.S. Media Relations: 713-241-4544
Shell U.S. Trademarks: 888-SHELLTM or 888-743-5586
Shell U.S. Royalties: 281-544-2600
Agelbert NOTE: EXCELLENT COMMENTS
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for you to copy, paste and
pass on to as many people as you can:
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RW media may not believe climate change is real. (95+ / 0-)
But sure looks like Shell believes it. Smoking gun.
Just another underemployed IT professional computer geek.
by RhodeIslandAspie on Sun May 17, 2015 at 04:14:00 PM PDT
Makes the timing of TPP so suspicous, huh?
The people behind it and supporting it are ass holes, too, just
as much as companies that will use it to put us on the hook for
their destructive failures...again.
by Words In Action on Sun May 17, 2015 at 10:44:54 PM PDT
ALEC
From an associated Guardian article:
"With Shell’s involvement in such controversial areas there is
also scrutiny of its lobbying efforts. The Union of Concerned
Scientists in the US has started a campaign against Shell over
its continued involvement in the American Legislative Exchange
Council (Alec), a rightwing nonprofit organisation that has been
criticised for drafting model legislation that denies any human
contribution to climate change."
We are taught that cheats never prosper, yet the country is run
by spivs.. George Monbiot
by northsylvania on Mon May 18, 2015 at 12:48:55 AM PDT
Ass holes (58+ / 0-)
by GANJA on Sun May 17, 2015 at 04:12:25 PM PDT
Ass hole is too nice a word. An ass hole cuts
in front of you in traffic. A sociopath enables mass death on
this kind of scale. You can't have a conscience and work in the
top rungs of a major oil company in 2015.
by samanthab on Mon May 18, 2015 at 04:06:50 AM PDT
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what top rungs are available?
you got me thinking; is there an industry in which sociopathic
qualities are not required at the top end?
Finance?
Any type of resource extraction?
Retail?
Politics/military?
Maybe Ben & Jerry?
Last full month in which the average daily temperature did not
exceed twentieth-century norms: 2/1985 - Harper's Index, 2/2013
UPDATE 2/2015: still true, getting worse. 2014 hottest year
ever.
by kamarvt on Mon May 18, 2015 at 05:12:06 AM PDT
Not exactly
Our culture just promotes sociopathy, and rewards it.
If corporate charters could be revoked for serious malfeasance
and if the only way to get a tax loophole was to donate money in
a pro social manner?
Then it might be different.
We make the USA run...or not... Bring back the general strike!!!
by slouchingdragon on Mon May 18, 2015 at 11:24:59 AM PDT
And that includes the leaders
Of industrialized countries who assist fossil fuel companies in
creating that catastrophe.
“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace
for the government.”
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GRAHAM: "Alright, do a Bernie Sanders."
SKEET OPERATOR: "Alright."
GRAHAM: "Pull!"
(SOUND OF GUNSHOT)
GRAHAM: "Sorry about that, Bernie!"
(LAUGHTER)
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: June 16, 2015, 5:37 pm
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Fossil Fuel-Funded Lawmakers Want to Weaken Human and
Environmental Health Protections
Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists | June 16, 2015
10:02 am
Americans consistently support environmental safeguards by wide
margins. A survey of likely 2016 voters, for instance, found
that 91 percent of Americans endorse strengthening drinking
water and air pollution protections, 87 percent want expanded
renewable energy development, and 82 percent would like the
government to place limits on power plant carbon pollution.
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Texas Republican Lamar Smith :evil4: , chairman of the House
Science Committee, wants to make it more difficult for the EPA
to do its job. Photo credit: The Partnership for Affordable
Clean Energy.
Despite those numbers, industry-backed legislators in both
houses of Congress have been introducing—and
reintroducing—benign-sounding bills [img width=80
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/>the last few years that would do the exact opposite of what a
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/>The sponsors of these Trojan Horse bills claim they would
increase accountability and transparency, but in fact they would
obstruct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and
other federal agencies from enacting science-based rules,
setting back public health and environmental protections for
decades to come.
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Koch Brothers Exposed for Campaign Contributions to 19 Members
of Congress Who Voted to Deny Fair Compensation to Asbestos
Victims >:(
Environmental Working Group | July 16, 2015 10:42 am
House Judiciary Committee members who voted for a bill that
could delay or deny fair compensation to asbestos victims
received almost $3.3 million in campaign contributions over the
last five years from companies that would benefit from the
legislation, according to an investigation of federal records by
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Action Fund.
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The so-called FACT Act, H.R. 526, authored by Rep. Blake
Farenthold (R-Tex.), is being supported by dozens of companies
and industry associations with billions of dollars worth of
liability for deaths and diseases caused by exposing workers,
their families or consumers to asbestos. On May 14, the
Judiciary panel approved it 19 to 9. The full House is expected
to debate it soon.
“Rep. Farenthold’s bill claims to be about increasing
transparency for asbestos claims, but it’s really just a scheme
to delay paying for victims’ deaths and illnesses as long as
possible,” said Bill Walker of EWG Action Fund and author of the
report.
“The FACT Act would not only erect needless bureaucratic hurdles
to victims’ compensation, but by forcing them to make public
their personal financial data, could put them at risk of
identity theft,” Walker said. “You might think such a bad bill
would be a non-starter for members of Congress, but our report
shows how asbestos interests are using their cash and clout in
an attempt to deny justice and evade the consequences of their
liability.”
The Koch brothers empire, which includes the forest products
giant Georgia-Pacific, and its affiliated political action
committee, has given the 19 committee members who voted for the
FACT Act $241,500 since 2010. Koch network contributions were
exceeded only by defense contractor Honeywell International,
which gave the members more than $245,000.
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In addition to their campaign contributions, since 2010, Koch,
Honeywell, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others aligned with
asbestos interests have spent unknown millions of dollars on K
Street, lobbying for the bill.
Most of the largest contributors to congressional supporters of
the FACT Act were defense contractors, who have exposed millions
of Americans to asbestos over the years. But big donors also
included AT&T, ExxonMobil, railroads and insurance companies.
Koch’s Georgia-Pacific subsidiary is facing tens of thousands of
lawsuits from people exposed to asbestos in its pipe joint
compound. The company’s estimated liability is nearly $1
billion—culpability it tried to skirt by funding bogus
scientific studies falsely concluding that the type of asbestos
used in the product does not cause cancer.
Honeywell International, whose political action committee
donated more money to members of Congress than any other U.S.
corporate PAC, has paid out more than $1 billion in asbestos
damages since 2010.
The 19 FACT Act supporters on the House Judiciary Committee
received an average of $173,267 apiece from asbestos interests
since 2010.
EWG Action Fund examined federal records of campaign
contributions to members of the House Judiciary Committee who
voted for the FACT Act, starting with the 2010 election cycle.
The EWG Action Fund report compiles contributions from companies
that met at least one of these criteria:
•Companies or industry associations that have disclosed on
federal forms that they lobbied for the FACT Act or for asbestos
litigation reform.
•Companies named in court decisions in the last 10 years as
defendants in asbestos lawsuits.
•Companies that have disclosed significant asbestos liability in
Securities and Exchange Commission filings or whose liability
was confirmed by news reports.
House Judiciary Committee members who received the most campaign
contributions from asbestos interests between 2010 and 2015
were:
•Lamar Smith (R-TX), $382,150
•Darryl Issa (R-CA), $372,329
•Virgil Goodlatte (R-VA), the committee chair, $300,879
•Randy Forbes (R-VA), $286,285
•Blake Farenthold (R-TX), $239,250
EWG Action Fund’s full analysis is here:
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to Impede Compensation for Victims
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