Along with government, corporate shake-downs are the big source of funding for the left. They almost never use their own money,
Big Banks and Big Government and Big...love each other because they can bury the little guys ( us ).
Wow, no way to think of this in civil terms!
Eco-nuts threaten to make life difficult for the gas project, but they let it slide so long as the gas company funds their efforts to screw ranchers.
I want natural gas pipes put through, but not at the price of funding eco-terrorist.
In CA this shakedown has happened at least once that I know of. Pay the environmetalists to do studies on a ‘problem’ and they leave you alone with the problem.