Thursday, June 09, 2005

Exxon/Mobil Helped Keep US Out of Kyoto Treaty

Guardian Unlimited Special reports Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush

Is anyone surprised by this?
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.

In Bush's "America," money talks.

Until now Exxon has publicly maintained that it had no involvement in the US government's rejection of Kyoto. But the documents, obtained by Greenpeace under US freedom of information legislation, suggest this is not the case.

"Potus [president of the United States] rejected Kyoto in part based on input from you [the Global Climate Coalition]," says one briefing note before Ms Dobriansky's meeting with the GCC, the main anti-Kyoto US industry group, which was dominated by Exxon.


Benito Mussolini once said, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism , since it is the merger of state and corporate power." In all the thin-skinned, self-righteous, right-wing defensiveness over the use of the term "fascist" to describe this administration, few people have brought up Mussolini's definition.

And he ought to know, right Howie?

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