Friday, February 17, 2012
"Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas lobby to battle coal industry"
Let's see.
Customers pay Chesapeake Energy for power.
Chesapeake Energy gives money to the Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club uses the money against the coal industry.
No wonder people are scratching their heads...
Customers pay Chesapeake Energy for power.
Chesapeake Energy gives money to the Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club uses the money against the coal industry.
No wonder people are scratching their heads...
David Martosko has the story at Daily Caller.com:
"A Time magazine blogger reported Thursday that the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and most august environmental organization, accepted millions of dollars in donations from one of the nation’s biggest natural gas-drilling companies for a program lambasting coal-fired power plants as environmental evildoers.
The total take for John Muir’s conservation group? A whopping $26 million over four years from Chesapeake Energy and its subsidiaries, mostly through Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon.
The news rocked the environmental movement, sent the Sierra Club headlong into explanation mode, angered coal companies that the organization targeted with natural gas money, and had free-market advocates shaking their heads."
