Climate activist Tim DeChristopher is set to be released from prison on Earth Day, this Sunday April 21st, since being incarcerated on July 26, 2011.
Tim DeChristopher created quite a ripple in the activist community when he tried to buy millions of dollars of land in December of 2008 in order to stop the oil and gas industry from snatching it up at an illegitimate...
"It's Just a Den of Thieves Over There"
"It's Just a Den of Thieves Over There"
Absolutely.
Have a look at this Guardian article, linked through our friend Ross Gelbspan's site.
The thrust is that a horde of oil industry-funded lobbyists are heading to Europe to try to undermine support for action against climate change. The operation is being led by Chris Horner, a Washington DC lawyer and senior fellow at the rightwing thinktank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received more than $1.3m (£750,000) funding from the US oil giant ExxonMobil. (See also next post.)
Horner is quoted saying that Europe is "an untapped frontier," albeit one that is hostile to Horner's gang of climate change dissemblers. In fact, Horner says: "It's just a den of thieves over there."
We concur wholeheartedly with the words in that sentence, but leave it to you, dear reader, to infer the correct location of "over there."
- Jim Hoggan's blog
- Log in or register to post comments





















