The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade

Human Events ^ | 10/03/2007 | Deborah Corey Barnes

[Old 300]

CCG, you’re a doll.

[AZLiberty]

Greeeeeen Acres is the place for me!

[timer]

Maurice Strong is straight from satan, no two ways about it. Remember, the devil doesn’t come at you as a fierce enemy. Oh no, he comes as your BEST BUDDY, your one true FRIEND in the world. Nail this &%^#$@ asap before he does permanent damage to the GOOD PEOPLE of the world...NAIL HIM!

[calcowgirl]

Thank ya, kind sir! :-)

[NormsRevenge]

mighty nice pile of keywords ya got there. ;-)

[calcowgirl]

Whatcha doin’ readin’ keywords? The article is *much* better! LOL.

I kinda liked this exposé—can ya tell?

[Rocky]

There are billions of dollars to be made in trading emissions credits. But first the federal government must force everyone to play the game.

Excellent article.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[KeyLargo]

POLL: DOES AL GORE DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?

YES:

NO:

LINK: http://www.nbc5.com/index.html

[finnigan2]

Al might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but a lifetime in politics has left him with a snout that can detect the smell of money better than any other pig at the trough.

[Tax Government]

The carbon-offset proposal is a direct assault on the free market.

[palmer]

From your second link:

Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, whose state is a participant in CCX, suggests that Sandor’s project is here to stay. “I think the Chicago Climate Exchange is part of America’s future,” he said when I spoke with him. “We felt that the sooner we became a part of it, the better.”

[calcowgirl]

Thanks! I forgot about Richardson.

It seems by getting cities and states to sign on to this scam, they are trying to force a Kyoto-like mandate nationally.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SB.

[piasa]

(snip)...Al Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management (GIM). According to Gore, the London-based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green. “Generation Investment Management, purchases -- but isn’t a provider of -- carbon dioxide offsets,” said spokesman Richard Campbell in a March 7 report by CNSNews. GIM appears to have considerable influence over the major carbon-credit trading firms that currently exist: the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) in the U.S. and the Carbon Neutral Company (CNC) in Great Britain. CCX is the only firm in the U.S. that claims to trade carbon credits.
CCX owes its existence in part to the Joyce Foundation [see Barak Hussein Obama], the Chicago-based liberal foundation that provided $347,000 in grant support in 2000 for a preliminary study to test the viability of a market in carbon credits. On the CCX board of directors is the ubiquitous Maurice Strong, a Canadian industrialist and diplomat who, since the 1970s, has helped create an international policy agenda for the environmentalist movement. Strong has described himself as “a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.”
His former job titles include “senior advisor” to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, “senior advisor” to World Bank President James Wolfensohn and board member of the United Nations Foundation, a creation of Ted Turner. The 78-year-old Strong is very close to Gore.
CCX has about 80 members that are self-confessed emitters of greenhouse gases. They have voluntarily committed themselves to reduce their emissions by the year 2010 to a level 6% below their emissions in 2000. CCX members include Ford Motor Company, Amtrak, DuPont, Dow Corning, American Electric Power, International Paper, Motorola, Waste Management and a smattering of other companies, along with the states of Illinois [see Obama, Blagojevich, Auchi,etc] and New Mexico [see Bill Richardson], seven cities and a number of universities.
Presumably the members “purchase” carbon offsets on the CCX trading exchange. This means they make contributions to or investments in groups or firms that provide forms of “alternative,” “renewable” and “clean” energy.
CCX also has “participant members” that develop the carbon-offset projects. They have names like Carbon Farmers and Eco-Nomics Incorporated. Still, other participant member groups facilitate, finance and market carbon-offset projects to “sequester, destroy or displace” greenhouse gases. CCX aspires to be the New York Stock Exchange of carbon-emissions trading.
Along with Gore, the co-founder of GIM is Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson. Last September, Goldman Sachs bought 10% of CCX shares for $23 million. CCX owns half the ECX, so Goldman Sachs has a stake there as well. ....(/snip)
--------The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade Human Events ^ | 10/03/2007 | Deborah Corey Barnes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts

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[piasa]

pinging this informative article again since these con artists and dupes are back on scene again for the bailout...

[piasa]

good old but very relevant article

[STARWISE]

~~Great digging ... thank you... PING!

[hoosiermama]

What is the connection between Joyce Foundation, Chicago-based and BO?

Is it also connected to the Ford Foundation?

[hoosiermama]

NEVERMIND....

But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.

The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”

Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees,