Anti Frackers funded by Russian oil company...who'da thunk it?

The only publicly available documentation of any business conducted by Klein Ltd. were two Internal Revenue Service filings by the California-based Sea Change Foundation, which showed that Klein had contributed $23 million to the group in 2010 and 2011. Klein Ltd. was responsible for more than 40 percent of contributions to Sea Change during those years.

The foundation passed those millions along to some of the nation’s most prominent and politically active environmentalist groups. The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change’s $100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.

The Sierra Club, which received nearly $8.5 million from Sea Change in 2010 and 2011, launched its “Beyond Natural Gas” campaign the following year. The effort has become one of the largest and best-funded environmentalist campaigns combating fracking and the extraction of natural gas in general.

Sea Change’s “skeletal staff quietly shovels tens of millions of dollars out the door annually to combat climate change. And that’s pretty much all it does,” noted Inside Philanthropy, which awarded the foundation its “sharpest laser focus in grantmaking” award last year.

Nathaniel Simons and his wife run the foundation and are, except for Klein Ltd., its only donors. Simons, a hedge fund millionaire who commutes to work across San Francisco Bay aboard a 50-foot yacht, also runs a venture capital firm that invests in companies that benefit from environmental and energy policies that Sea Change grantees promote.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on January 28, 2015 at 10:52am
Jim,if the mainstream media wasn't in the Kremlin's vest pocket they would blow the roof off of a whole bunch of Russian influenced crap in this country!
Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 28, 2015 at 11:53am

Trapper,

The "mainstream media" is on the leash of the anti oil and gas environmentalists. Therefor, they refuse to look beyond the veneer.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 28, 2015 at 11:51am

Abraham Lincoln once said (I paraphrase) that no foreign army could invade our shores and destroy our country. If the country would be destroyed, that destruction would come from within.

Russia is simply funding our destruction from within (by Americans).

Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on January 28, 2015 at 12:07pm

The Russkies surely have reason to torpedo our domestic energy development efforts, and North American energy developments as well (let's not forget our Canadian ally and the Keystone XL).  Russia is not an American ally.  When we are weakened or made more dependent, their ends are served.  In addition, energy production here has the tendency to lower energy prices worldwide.  And energy sales underpin the entire Russian economy.

Can you imagine, even during WWII there was a "fifth column" here in the USA which did not support our war effort against Hitler's Germany!!  But the numbers of such people back then were, thank goodness, relatively small.  Else we might now all be speaking and writing in German!  Sadly today, disguised as environmentalists and other "activists", their numbers have grown to the point one of their own occupies the White House itself.  It's going to be a long struggle to re-claim this country from the America haters in our midst.  The next battle will reach its climax in the fall of 2016.  We must pray for a positive outcome at that time.

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