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Gas trade group seeks lobbying probe of Artists Against Fracking over fracking (Yoko, Deniro, etc)
Yahoo! News Canada / The Associated Press / The Canadian Press ^ | March 30, 2013 | Michael Gormley

Posted on 03/30/2013 5:42:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

ALBANY, N.Y. - A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group that includes Yoko Ono and other A-List celebrities, is violating the state's lobbying law, according to the document obtained by The Associated Press.

The Independent Oil & Gas Association, an industry group that supports gas drilling, filed the complaint Tuesday with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The complaint is based on an AP story that found that Artists Against Fracking and its members, including Ono, her son Sean Lennon, actors Mark Ruffalo and Robert De Niro and others, aren't registered as lobbyists and therefore didn't disclose their spending in opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to remove gas from underground deposits.....

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: energy; fracking; lobbying; shalegas

1 posted on 03/30/2013 5:42:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The usual suspects. I bet they all live in crude, tiny shacks heated by solar panels and wind turbines. (snicker)


2 posted on 03/30/2013 6:16:45 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Yoko Ono is an A-list celebrity? And Mark Ruffalo? Who wrote this?


3 posted on 03/30/2013 7:37:00 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do rich liberals, who have climbed the ladder of success want to pull it up behind them so that others can’t climb it too?


4 posted on 03/30/2013 7:49:37 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obamanation Counterculture File.


5 posted on 03/30/2013 7:49:59 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: fella

Your question answers itself.


6 posted on 03/30/2013 7:53:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Empty commie heads living in glass houses adopting a cause they know nothing about. Boycott yoko ono, funny are thier people buying this screaming banshees crap? Deniro is a disappointment.


7 posted on 03/31/2013 6:44:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t the oil and gas industry guys understand that in New York such laws are only meant to apply to Liberal’s opponents, and never to Liberal causes.


8 posted on 03/31/2013 9:54:35 AM PDT by Wuli
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