For Polluters and Politicians: Nothing says I love you like balloons
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Environmental activists aren't about to let Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, off the hook, not after she tried to trash the Clean Air Act, and certainly not after she suggested last week that she wanted to open up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Three Greenpeace activists were taken into custody today after floating a banner hanging from released balloons in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building -- in plain view of a favorite destination for polluter lobbyists -- Senator Lisa Murkowski's Washington DC office. The banner reads "Lisa Murkowski, Happily matched since 2004" and features the logos of three companies: ExxonMobil, Southern Co., and Chevron. The banner exposed Murkowski's close relationship with dirty energy interests and promoted PolluterHarmony.com, a spoof online dating site launched just before Valentine's Day to help connect polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians.
Murkowski's continued counterinsurgency against Obama's EPA is part of a multilateral attack by corporations, corporate lobbyists and their friends in right wing think tanks and front groups. Multiple lawsuits and petitions have been filed in recent weeks throwing roadblocks in front of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
Last week, Senator Murkowski suggested that she would only vote for a climate and energy bill if it included opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
It is extraordinary that while Alaska is especially threatened by global warming, and entire villages are lost, Senator Murkowski continues to promote the interests of the very industries that are driving climate change. While Alaska is transformed by warmer temperatures, drilling for oil in the National Wildlife Refuge would further threaten important habitat for caribou, polar bears, and other wildlife.
Promoting reckless oil drilling and trashing the Clean Air Act might entice dirty energy interests to write campaign checks but they have no place in sane national energy policy.
Read the full article on the Huffington Post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kert-davies/lisa-murkowskis-big-oil-l_b_490062.htm...
See more photos of the Greenpeace action here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/
Three Greenpeace activists were taken into custody today after floating a banner hanging from released balloons in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building -- in plain view of a favorite destination for polluter lobbyists -- Senator Lisa Murkowski's Washington DC office. The banner reads "Lisa Murkowski, Happily matched since 2004" and features the logos of three companies: ExxonMobil, Southern Co., and Chevron. The banner exposed Murkowski's close relationship with dirty energy interests and promoted PolluterHarmony.com, a spoof online dating site launched just before Valentine's Day to help connect polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians.
Murkowski's continued counterinsurgency against Obama's EPA is part of a multilateral attack by corporations, corporate lobbyists and their friends in right wing think tanks and front groups. Multiple lawsuits and petitions have been filed in recent weeks throwing roadblocks in front of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
Last week, Senator Murkowski suggested that she would only vote for a climate and energy bill if it included opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
It is extraordinary that while Alaska is especially threatened by global warming, and entire villages are lost, Senator Murkowski continues to promote the interests of the very industries that are driving climate change. While Alaska is transformed by warmer temperatures, drilling for oil in the National Wildlife Refuge would further threaten important habitat for caribou, polar bears, and other wildlife.
Promoting reckless oil drilling and trashing the Clean Air Act might entice dirty energy interests to write campaign checks but they have no place in sane national energy policy.
Read the full article on the Huffington Post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kert-davies/lisa-murkowskis-big-oil-l_b_490062.htm...
See more photos of the Greenpeace action here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/
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artemis6
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Well done green peace !
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
