Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse | Part I

"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...

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Apr 12

2013

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org Beyond Coal Campaign Chesapeake Energy EPA KXL Pew Charitable Trusts Sierra Club

Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC

"Between 2007 and 2010, Chesapeake Energy secretly funneled nearly $30 million to the Sierra Club to advocate the virtues of natural gas as a so-called “bridge” fuel. Bridge to where is yet to be determined. By the time this subornment was disclosed, the funders of the environmental movement had turned decisively against fracking for gas and the even more malicious methods used to extract shale oil."

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Nov 29

2012

newWKOGadnim

350.org / 1Sky, Environmental Defence Fund, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club

1Sky/350.org Climate Reality Project Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) FoE National Wildlife Federation Powershift Sierra Club

Revealed: The Day Obama Instructed the Big Greens to Keep Silent on Climate Change

"My most vivid memory of that meeting is this idea that you can't talk about climate change," said Jessy Tolkan, who at the time was a leader of the climate youth movement, Power Shift.

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Nov 21

2012

newWKOGadnim

Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, National Wildlife Federation, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

25 x 25 Biofuels Biomass Capitalism Climate Environmental Defence Fund False Solutions Greenwash National Wildlife Federation Sierra Club World Watch Institute

“25 x 25” is a Big Fat Bio-Massacre

"Some of my friends in the professional environmental movement have reacted as expected yesterday when I called them out for having allowed biomass burning to be a huge part of what Michigan is going to get under Proposal 3 or “25 x 25.” Accusations and anger."

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Jul 31

2012

newWKOGadnim

Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society

Biomass Environmental Defense Fund Forests Foundations Fracking Montana Wilderness Association Sierra Club The Wilderness Society

When Environmentalists Collaborate

"Just this week, The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Montana Wilderness Association filed a brief in favor of a 2,038-acre Climate Camo logging plan on the Lolo National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, the WildWest Institute and two other real grassroots conservation groups had filed a lawsuit against the Colt Summit Timber Sale alleging that the logging would do grave harm to lynx, grizzly bears and bull trout."

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Jul 31

2012

newWKOGadnim

Center for Biological Diversity, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Center for Biological Diversity ONRC Oregon Natural Resources Council Oregon Wild Sierra Club

FLASHBACK: Big Greens and Real Greens

"It may be too late for Spotted Owls, but if these new grassroots can somehow avoid being defanged by the Foundation/Big Greens and stay true to the cause and make the institutions that spring up around it work for a greater whole; polar bears and many other species, and yes homo sapiens, may just have a fighting chance."

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Jul 30

2012

newWKOGadnim

Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

Nature Conservancy Non-profit Industrial Complex Pew Charitable Trusts Rockefeller Sierra Club

FLASHBACK: How Nonprofit Careerism Derailed the “Revolution”

"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."

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Apr 06

2012

newWKOGadnim

Sierra Club

Fracking Shale Sierra Club

Selling Out: Frackin Blood Money for the Sierra Club and Tex Hall

"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."

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Apr 03

2012

newWKOGadnim

Sierra Club

Black Mesa Black Mesa Defense Fund of Santa Fe Central Clearing House Friends of the Earth Hopis Navajos Racism Sierra Club

Red Truth, White Cover-Up: How the Udalls, Sierra Club and White Environmentalists Sold out Navajos and Hopis on Black Mesa

"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…"

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Mar 24

2012

newWKOGadnim

Sierra Club

Fracking Shale Sierra Club

Breaking Up with the Sierra Club

"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. ..."

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