According to CNS News, the natural gas industry paid the Sierra Club $26 million to attack the coal industry. The Sierra Club admitted it.
“In 2010, soon after I became the organization’s executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country’s largest natural gas companies,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune wrote on the Sierra Club website.
Brune said that the reason the Sierra Club took the money was that it felt that it shared a “common purpose” with Chesapeake Energy – ending the use of coal.
“The idea was that we shared at least one common purpose – to move our country away from dirty coal,” Brune wrote. (Read More)
Brune is no fan of the natural gas industry, and ended ties with them.
I’m all for natural gas production in the US, but without subsidies and not at the expense of the reliability of the power grid. This is the sort of thing that happens in a crony capitalist system. The gas industry knew the Sierra Club could get the greens all riled up to pressure the government to do their bidding. Just look what the Obama administration has done to coal plants.
Via Fox Nation
Update: Linked by The Western Experience – thanks!
The elimination of dirty coal being their “common purpose” my a$$. Their commonality is money, plain and simple.
The Sierra Club now joins ranks as another official mercenary whore of the left. Period.
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Obama announced, before he was ever the actual nominee, that his goal was to crush the coal industry.
That’s the really sick thing. The guy never hid his agenda, and Americans voted for him anyway.
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At least Brune was a stand up guy and cut ties with the natural gas jerks. This country should utilize any and all energy resourses available to end our dependance on foreign oil. The less we must buy from afar, the more independant we remain. A natural gas supply to those areas or industries that need it is good, but not at the expence of other viable and necessary energy resourses. We need a healthy balance of all to keep prices down.
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