Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/02/2010 2:08:37 PM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
Such rapid expansion of EPA powers and growth is emblematic of Big Government bureaucracy run amok with the help of some influential friends. In the EPA's case, there was no better friend than Enron.
Flash back to the 1990s. Enron was then diversifying its energy business to emphasize natural gas, a fuel that was facing difficult market competition with coal. The company was already heavily invested, and owned the largest natural gas pipeline that existed outside Russia, a colossal interstate network. They badly needed some help in Washington to tip the playing field.
National hype about a global warming crisis advanced by then-Sen. Al Gore's highly publicized 1988 congressional hearings on the subject provided a dream opportunity. Enron engaged services of climate scientists to conduct an internal study with disappointing results regarding any real warranted alarm, and subsequently never released the results ...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
No, I do not believe it is, but they sure think so since they are indeed the progenitors of the cult of sustainable development.
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