Jul 30
20120
Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
Nature Conservancy Non-profit Industrial Complex Pew Charitable Trusts Rockefeller Sierra Club
"I have a background in successful grassroots environmentalism and have butted heads more than once with the ineffective Big Greens and their funders. I learned early on that protecting grant portfolios and career tracks are far more important to these folks than protecting ecosystems. Once a staffer from Pew told me, "We fund reform, not revolution." From my perspective, they fund neither."
"Quite the opposite, Tar Sands Action was a sophisticated, extremely well-funded model for creating the illusion of movement building, complete with mass civil disobedience, but the real goal, mirroring its cousin, “The 99 Spring,” was (and is) to hammer Republicans and fire up grassroots enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign."
"The Sierra Club admits it accepted $25 million from the fracking industry, while Chairman Tex Hall, of the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa Nation, continued his push for fracking and the rape of Mother Earth. Hall pushed against fracking regulations designed to protect the land and water. In ‘Breaking Up with the Sierra Club,’ Sandra Steingraber said the Sierra Club admitted secretly accepting $25 million from the fracking industry between 2007 and 2012 and most of it came from Chesapeake Energy."
Apr 03
20120
Black Mesa Black Mesa Defense Fund of Santa Fe Central Clearing House Friends of the Earth Hopis Navajos Racism Sierra Club
"The young people, the next generation, those faces who were not yet on the earth but who we were working and fighting for in the 1960s and 1970s deserve to know the truth today by a native activist who was around then. And their continued environmental work on the mesa is a dream come true for this old-timer. Speaking of which, time for this grouchy elder to have another cup of coffee and pour it in my saucer as usual…"
"The hard truth: National Sierra Club served as the political cover for the gas industry and for the politicians who take their money and do their bidding. It had a hand in setting in motion the wheels of environmental destruction and human suffering. It was complicit in bringing extreme fossil fuel extraction onshore, into our communities, farmlands, and forests, and in blowing up the bedrock of our nation. And I can’t get over it. ..."
"John Muir must be rolling over in his grave. The organization he founded in 1892, the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest environmental group, have been in cahoots with the worst of the worst corporations in recent years. They’ve been paid tens of millions of dollars by the fossil fuel industry, tyrannical billionaire mayors and Wall Street in exchange for cleaning (and greening) up their public images. Not only have they acted as a green public relations firm for the bastions of wealth and power, but have also sold out frontline communities most impacted by extractive industry."
Anti-fracking campaigners from the US give their own perspective, and warn the UK campaign about those who might pretend to be on our side.
"The news of the gas industry donation—which had been kept anonymous until now, as many of Club’s gifts from individuals and corporations are—is particularly worrisome for the Sierra Club because its former executive director Carl Pope had been vocal in supporting natural gas as an alternative to coal. Pope—a lifelong Sierra Club staffer who served as executive director and then chairman before stepping down late last year—accompanied Chesapeake’s McClendon in 2009 on trips promoting the benefits of natural gas over coal, even as millions of dollars of McClendon’s money was flowing to Sierra Club anonymously."
Jan 19
20120
350.org / 1Sky, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
Little Scraps of Humanity By Press Action January 18, 2012 “I have...
Nov 22
20112
Environmental Defence Fund, Friends of the Earth, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
Brookings Institution Capitalism Environmental Defense Fund Ford Friends of the Earth Massachusetts Audubon Society Media MSM National Academy of Science Nature Conservancy Open Space Action Committee RAND Resources for the Future Rockefeller Save-the-Redwoods League Sierra Club Smithsonian Institution the Conservation Foundation
Katherine Barkley and Steve Weissman, “The Eco-Establishment,” in: Ramparts (eds.), Eco-Catastrophe (Harper...