Rockefellers push Exxon to Fight Global Warming

Exxon/Mobil, long considered one of the oil companies most resistant to change, may soon be forced to help fight global warming and explore alternative energy options. The pressure to change isn't coming from outside environmentalists or governments, though: Several Rockefeller family members descended from legendary oilman John D. Rockefeller himself have proposed a resolution asking Exxon to take global warming seriously and move beyond oil. They hope Exxon/Mobil (the modern incarnation of Rockefeller's Standard Oil) will refocus business efforts to become a leader in alternative energy sources, including solar power, wind turbines, biofuels, and hydrogen energy.

“Exxon Mobil needs to reconnect with the forward-looking and entrepreneurial vision of my great-grandfather,” Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a Tufts University economist, said in a statement to reporters.
“The truth is that Exxon Mobil is profiting in the short term from investments and decisions made many years ago, and by focusing on a narrow path that ignores the rapidly shifting energy landscape around the world,” she added.

Large coalitions of shareholders have joined the Rockefellers in their pursuit to refocus Exxon, and they've even obtained the blessing of family patriarch David Rockefeller.

“I support my family’s efforts to sharpen Exxon Mobil’s focus on the environmental crisis facing all of us.”

In addition to diversifying the company through alternative energy exploration, the family proposes for Exxon/Mobil to actively fight global warming by reducing its company-wide carbon footprint. The four resolutions enjoy varied support among the family members, with 73 out of 78 surviving adult Rockefellers backing one resolution in particular.

“You need a board asking the tough questions,” Peter O’Neill, a private equity investor and great-great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, said in an interview. “We expect the company to figure out how in this changing world to adjust.”

If the resolutions pass, the board is expected to take the family's considerations into serious account. It could also be seen as a full-circle event of sorts for the Rockefellers: Though John D. Rockefeller is widely associated with plundering the land for oil, his grandsons devoted themselves to fighting against pollution and for conservation.

— Ted Alvarez

Rockefellers seek change at Exxon (NY Times)

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STOP RUSSIA GAZPROM RABASKA LNG FACILITY IN CANADA

August 13, 2008

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There has been grievous outsized naked aggression and intimidation of the former Soviet republic and free, Democratically elected Republic of Georgia. President Dmitry Medvedev has unofficially called off all hostilities.

1) We demand the permanent full cessations of hostilities in The Georgian region.

2) We demand the unpartisan protection, safety and welfare of all civilians

3a) We demand that Canada immediately halts Rabaska Gazprom Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facility in Quebec

3b) This facility effectively establishes a Russian Energy Beachhead in North America and in a time of crisis would endanger Central Canada and help destabilize North America.

A full LNG tanker from Russia, if it should "accidentally" explode, has been proven to have an impact of 55 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombs. The Rabaska LNG facility itself located just across from Quebec City, opposed by local citizens, would itself have the effect of heavier impact nuclear bombs.

http://timrileylaw.com/LNG_TANKERS.htm

Enbridge Inc. and their partners Gaz Metro and Gaz de France announced last month(June 2008) that the company has signed a Letter of Intent with Gazprom Marketing & Trading USA, Inc., which outlines the terms under which Gazprom will become an equity partner in the proposed Rabaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification project.

Under the agreement Gazprom has agreed to supply 500 million cubic feet per day to the $840-million terminal east of Quebec City.

The Rabaska terminal is expected to introduce a new source of natural gas supply to the Quebec and eastern Ontario markets.

"The Rabaska LNG project will deliver the critical infrastructure needed to bring an important new source of natural gas supply to Ontario and Quebec," said Stephen J.J. Letwin, executive vice president, gas transportation and international for Enbridge.

"This new supply will benefit the two provinces' growing number of natural gas consumers, many of whom are customers of Enbridge Gas Distribution, as well as support Ontario's increasing emphasis on natural gas to fuel environmentally responsible power generation. Gazprom's involvement in the Rabaska LNG project gives strong momentum to advancing this project and meeting those needs."

Using the Rabaska terminal, Gazprom, which is a subsidiary of OAO Gazprom, expects to import Russian LNG supplied from the Shtokman liquefaction project.

The Shtokman gas and condensate field, discovered in 1988, is located in the central part of the Barents Sea, about 450 kilometers northeast of the city of Murmansk, Russia.

http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id28110

Mr. Medvedev, born in 1965, is a lawyer and former law professor who worked in politics and business in St. Petersburg after the collapse of the Soviet Union, bringing him into close contact with Mr. Putin and the other reformers in that city's government. He followed Mr. Putin to Moscow in 1999 and, despite his relative youth, rose influence and prominence. In 2000, Mr. Medvedev became chairman of Gazprom, the energy giant, which has increasingly become a wealthy corporation and instrument of Kremlin foreign and domestic policy.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/dmitri_a_me...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew from Beijing just north of South Ossetia to meet with Russian generals � like Julius Caesar at the Rubicon � (CAESER NON SUPRA LOGOS GRAMMATICOS) � yet the Russian Constitution states that President Dmitry Medvedev is Commander in Chief.

To be fair, the Republican Bush-McCain administration has been stoking and provoking this crisis by insisting on Georgia's inclusion in the Cold War NATO alliance, even against the advice of its European allies.

Senator John McCain's top foreign policy advisor Randall Scheunemann, as pointed out by Governor Bill Richardson (New Mexico) has professionally lobbied for Georgia's inclusion into NATO. Senator McCain himself as chairman of the International Republican Institute has long sought for inclusion of Georgia into NATO.

The Republican Bush-McCain administration has also long sought and are imminently attempting to implement "Missile Shield" in former Eastern Bloc countries notably Poland and Czech Republic - Remember the Cuban 1962 October Missile Crisis? No Redux.

Sen. John McCain has been accused by Judicial-Watch of Accepting improper Donations from
Lord Jacob Rothschild.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2008/apr/judicial-watch-calls-fec-inv...

Lord Jacob Rothschild is heavily involved with Russian Oil Giant Yukos and Oligarch Mikhail
Khodorkovsky-the article(Washington Times and BBC) states Khodorkovsky gave Lord Rothschild all his controlling shares.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2003/nov/02/20031102-111400-3720r/

Senator McCain in a well known statement has said when he looked into Vladimir's
Putin's eyes all he saw was 3 letters K,G and B., fair enough, but we suggest when we look
into Sen. John McCain's eyes we see 3 letters, M.I.A..

America and the World we ask you can you Trust John McCain with his finger on the
Nuclear button?

The Georgians and other Eastern Europeans and indeed the World with friends like the Republican Bush-McCain administration who are the representative of King Coal, Big Oil and Gas, Nuclear power and Weapons, who needs enemies like Putin, who also represents King Coal, Big Oil and Gas, Nuclear power and Weapons? The world needs to know that America and Europe stand for something more. The solution is before our Eyes - Humanity is at grave risk. We must turn to a 100% Renewable Energy World immediately

(GAZPROM IS THE NATURAL EVOLUTION OF THE CORPORATION-IT IS THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL CORPORATION CAPABLE OF OUT MUSCLING EXXONMOBIL, BP WHOLE COUNTRIES ETC., IT IS TO USE AN ANALOGY A MONSTROUS HYBRID-THE MOST TERRORIFYING FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON THE EARTH HAS EVER SEEN., IT IS TERRORIZING THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF EUROPE AND BEYOND...IT STANDS IN THE WAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF EARTH TO MOVE TOWARDS 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY.)

Where were you when they crucified Georgia?

By George Pitcher the Telegraph UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/12/do...

(Article asking about the whereabouts of Western leaders and World Religious leaders)

Bush Administration Launches "Sneak Attack" On Endangered Species Act

Suemedha Sood 08/12/2008 the Washington Independent

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