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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 11:33 PM
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Exxon tells dimbot what to do: from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html

Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush

White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance

John Vidal, environment editor
Wednesday June 8, 2005
The Guardian

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.

The documents, which emerged as Tony Blair visited the White House for discussions on climate change before next month's G8 meeting, reinforce widely-held suspicions of how close the company is to the administration and its role in helping to formulate US policy.

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable. "

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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 11:35 PM
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1. And now dimbot is pushing a "new energy" policy - hmm-what
company is building nuclear plants..and how much stock do the republican senators and house reps and members of the administration have in those companies?

Exxon must be going into the nuclear business with Halliburton.
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