Green Groups Push Fossil Fuel Divestment but Invest in Oil & Gas
If this doesn’t beat all. In an explosive expose from NBC News (yes, NBC News), some of the biggest names in the Big Green movement, including some in the Marcellus/Utica region, are secretly investing in oil and gas companies while at the same time demanding that banks, investment firms, pension funds, state governments and others divest from the same companies they invest in! In one case, the tax-exempt William Penn Foundation, which backs rabid anti-fossil fuel/divestment groups like THE Delaware Riverkeeper and the Philadelphia-based Clean Air Council, actually invests in (yes) oil and gas companies. The profits from William Penn’s fossil fuel investments are then used to fund groups attacking fossil fuel companies. Mind boggling. It’s yet another case of “do what I say, not what I do” when it comes to the left in this country. We’re just amazed that NBC (a big fake news organization) actually reported it…
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