Posted on 02/07/2012 9:38:55 AM PST by opentalk
Details of a large non-profits 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.
Here is that presentation in full (click here to view in a new window)
...The strategy has some Canadian commentators fuming at what they see as foreign meddling in their affairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
One Groups Strategy to Derail Oil Pipelines, Raise Energy Prices
..The keystone pipeline is actually just one of several oil sands pipelines targeted by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in a coordinated, 4-year, $28 million dollar campaign. Ezra Levant calls it industrial sabotage and, based on their own Power Point, that certainly seems an apt description:..
Yup.
How can there be NO LAW against economic terrorism/industrial sabotage !?
Boggles the mind doesn`t it that they EVEN give these economic terrorists standing in court.
Industrial Sabotage: Rockefeller Funds $28 Million Campaign Against Keystone Pipeline
http://www.verumserum.com/ ^ | February 6, 2012 | John
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Old John D. is rolling over in his grave right about now.
Supporting efforts to reduce reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources.
In short: The money inherited from the man who almost single-handedly made oil affordable through hard work and innovation, John D. Rockefeller (founder of Standard Oil), is being spent by dweeby Marxists in order to make it expensive again.
Save a tree: Take away their bikes, Priuses, and Mercedeses and make them walk to work.
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