Monday, February 06, 2012

Derailing the pipeline, jobs, cheap energy

The Foundry, the blog of the Heritage Society, has a story about how the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is funding environmental groups to keep energy prices high and fight new sources of energy from fossil fuels, "Details of a large non-profit’s plans to combat the Keystone XL pipeline have surfaced, and offer some insight into the strategies and tactics of groups looking to combat the use of fossil fuels.
Canadian news channel Sun News uncovered of a PowerPoint presentation from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund detailing its work with other groups to derail the Keystone XL pipeline and other similar projects it deemed parts of “a globally significant threat.”
The presentation, written in 2008, describes the allocation of $7 million to environmental non-profits for tactics that include the use of the legislative and legal systems to delay or derail energy production in the United States and Canada, and to “raise the costs” of energy in both nations.
Read more here:  http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/03/one-groups-strategy-to-derail-oil-pipelines-raise-energy-prices/

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