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Maybe Occupy Has A Point
If fossil fuel interests are holding the negotiations back, then the OCCUPY movement may have a point. According to Ferrial Adams of Greenpeace Africa, there are delegates on the United States’ team representing some of the major oil companies in America – Shell, Chevron, BP, and Exon Mobil. Who knows what their influence may be? She argues that the delegates need to “listen to the people, not the polluters.”
I’d like to see Occupy Durban join the conference ASAP!
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Troubling, if true. What’s the basis for the assertion that US delegates are representing views of private corporations? The US is taking positions at COP 17 that are not very ambituous, which is consistent with and very possibly influenced by corporate concerns, as well as what the administration calculates as poltically feasible on domestic front at present. But that is different from US delegates ‘representing some of the major oil companies in America.’
Neil Leary
I’m not sure. But we can definietly prove that the United States Congress works this way, even if the COP17 delegation does not. This is to say, even if the delegates want to sign a deal without the interest of big oil influencing them, they cannot bring home a deal becuase Congress (absolutely influneced by big oil/coal/gas) won’t pass it.
Of course, the blog post was in reaction to a statement made by Greenpeace…