CFACT and the Washington Examiner
Invisible fact: the environmental movement is a mature, highly
developed network with top leadership stewarding a vast institutional
memory, a fiercely loyal cadre of competent social and political
operatives, and millions of high-demographic members ready to be
mobilized as needed.
That membership base is a built-in free public relations machine
responsive to the push of a social media button sending politically
powerful “educational” alerts that don’t show up on election reports.
Big Oil doesn’t have that, but has to pay for lobbyists, public relations firms and support groups that do show up on reports.
You don’t need expert skills to connect the dots linking Keystone XL to Alberta’s oil sands to climate change to Big Green.
On the other hand, you do need detailed knowledge to parse Big Green
into its constituent parts. I spoke with CFACT senior policy analyst
Paul Driessen, who said, “U.S. environmental activist groups are a
$13-billion-a-year industry — and they’re all about PR and mobilizing
the troops.
“Their climate change campaign alone has well over a billion dollars
annually, and high-profile battles against drilling, fracking, oil sands
and Keystone get a big chunk of that, as demonstrated by the
Rockefeller assault.”
Driessen then identified the most-neglected of all money sources in
Big Green: “The liberal foundations that give targeted grants to Big
Green operations have well over $100 billion at their disposal.”
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