Oil Companies Donated To Clinton Foundation While Lobbying State Department...

[AzDar]

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/oil-companies-donated-clinton-foundation-while-lobbying-state-department-2348832

From The Link:

Faced with new questions last week about her cash haul from the oil and gas industry, Hillary Clinton and her campaign fended off the queries with a flat rejoinder: There is no explicit quid pro quo between major donations and public policies pushed by Clinton. The Clinton team also noted that the millions of dollars that flowed to her campaign and a super PAC supporting her White House bid came from the industry’s individual employees and lobbyists, not from the oil companies themselves.

But Clinton’s family foundation has accepted millions of dollars directly from major fossil fuel companies — including from those that lobbied her State Department just before the agency approved a controversial pipeline delivering what environmentalists call one of the world’s dirtiest sources of energy. The Clinton Foundation did not respond to International Business Times’ request for comment.

n 2009, the Clinton-led State Department approved a permit for the 400-mile Alberta Clipper pipeline, which is designed to pump up to 450,000 barrels of oil per day from the Canadian oil sands to Wisconsin (where recent polls show Democratic primary voters are concerned about its impact). According to federal lobbying records reviewed by the IBT, Chevron and ConocoPhillips both lobbied the State Department specifically on the issue of “oil sands” in the immediate months prior to the department's approval, as did a trade association funded by ExxonMobil.

Those three oil companies have delivered between between $2.5 million and $3 million to the Clinton Foundation. That is on top of money their executives and lobbyists delivered to Clinton’s campaign and super PAC in her 2008 presidential bid — the year before she approved the pipeline.


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[onecaliberal]

1. But but but the money will not effect her decisions

[AzDar]

3. Yep. They just like the cut of her jib...

[Hoyt]

2. Oil sure didn't get its money worth with the renewable energy Clinton supports.

Clinton's campaign in pushing it. And her Foundation is actively engaged in renewable energy projects. Not waving her arms while ranting at the sky, but actually doing something about it. Getting stuff done. Look it up folks.

[Wilms]

4. "I'm sick and tired of" that shit. n/t

[amborin]

5. KNR

[panader0]

6. The Clinton Foundation is a slush fund.

The small amount of charity work they actually do, while a good thing, is just a cover.

[Segami]

7. KICK

[CharlotteVale]

8. Corrupt to the core.

[amborin]

9. kick