Clinton has received direct contributions from 53 oil and gas industry lobbyists

[Cheese Sandwich]

Research compiled by Greenpeace USA...

Examples:

• 3 Enbridge lobbyists contributed to HRC’s campaign. While she was Secretary of State, Clinton signed off on the Enbridge pipeline (the alternative to KXL).
  
  
• Ben Klein (Heather Podesta and Associates) lobbied on behalf of Oxbow Carbon on petcoke and other issues. Petcoke is a byproduct of refining. Communities in Detroit and Chicago have complained about piles of petcoke blowing into the community. Bill Koch (the estranged brother of Charles and David) owns controlling interest of Oxbow. Klein also lobbied on restrictions of ivory imports for Oxbow.
  
  
• Fracking company and gas industry trade association lobbyists have also contributed to Clinton’s campaign, including Former Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX), who lobbied for the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance, and Martin Durbin of the American Natural Gas Association (now merged and part of the American Petroleum Institute – API), the brother of Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). Another donor is Elizabeth Gore, a lobbyist for WPX energy (fracking). A lobbyist for FTI Consulting, creator of an industry front group called Energy In Depth, also contributed to Clinton;s campaign. Although Clinton has said she would require FERC to consider climate change before granting any new gas pipeline permits, she recently told activists she would not ban fracking as president, and has a pro-fracking track record which has been well-documented by numerous groups, including pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record.
  
  
• Marty Streett, a lobbyist for BP, gave Clinton’s campaign the maximum allowable amount ($2700). Her sister, Stephanie S. Streett, is the Executive Director of the William J. Clinton Foundation and former ED of the Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation (Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, 990 report 2013). The Podesta Group (Tony Podesta) also lobbied for BP, on issues including the Gulf of Mexico spill response and recovery.
  
  
• While Secretary of State, Clinton pushed fracking in countries around the world, through the department’s Global Shale Gas Initiative. According to Grist, after the Bulgarian government signed a five-year deal with Chevron, major public protests led the Bulgarian parliament to pass a fracking moratorium. Clinton traveled to Bulgaria and then dispatched her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans, which were eventually overturned.
  
  
• Clinton’s State Department played a major role in negotiating a bilateral oil agreement with Mexico. Her former special envoy for international energy affairs, David Goldwyn, has donated the maximum allowable amount to the campaign ($2700). Since leaving State, Goldwyn has consulted for companies wishing to profit from Mexico’s decision to allow private oil services contractors into the country in order to expand PEMEX’s ability to produce shale oil and tap deep offshore reserves.
  
  
• David Leiter (ML Strategies lobbyist for Exxon and a HRC bundler), the former Senate chief of staff to John Kerry, is also a lobbyist for Burisma Holdings, a private Ukrainian natural gas and uranium mining company with many connections to the Democratic Party. Biden’s son Hunter joined Burisma’s board in 2014, right before Leiter was hired to lobby members about the role of the company in Ukraine (arguing for its role in helping Ukraine be independent of Russia). Another board member, Devon Archer, is a HRC donor (2700) and Democratic bundler (I don’t see any record of him bundling for HRC). FTI’s Lawrence Pacheco does communications for Burisma. Burisma is owned by a Cypriot holding firm, Brociti Investments Ltd, which is controlled by Nikolai Zlochevskyi, a former Ukrainian gov. minister.
  
  
• Although Clinton has said she supports an investigation into Exxon’s early concealment of what it knew about the risks of climate change and subsequent financing of climate denier front groups, her campaign has taken contributions from at least 7 lobbyists working for Exxon, including one in-house lobbyist – Theresa Fariello – who has bundled and additional $21,200 for the campaign.
  
  
• Hess lobbyists from Forbes-Tate (Daniel Tate, Jeffrey Forbes, George Cooper and Rachel Miller) all gave maximum allowable contributions to HRC’s campaign. The firm lobbied on behalf of the Hess Corporation, on crude by rail and crude exports. Hess owns rail cars that came off the tracks and caught fire after a BNSF train derailed in North Dakota in early May, 2015. Hess is the third largest oil producer in North Dakota. Lynn Helms, a former Hess executive served as ND’s top oil and gas regulator at the Department of Mineral Resources between 2005 and 2013. When Clinton came out in opposition to KXL she started talking about how fixing train tracks would create jobs. In December 2015, a couple of months after Clinton announced she opposed KXL, and just over a month after Obama turned KXL down, Warren Buffett — who owns BNSF — endorsed Clinton. Buffett is also a big oil investor (e.g. Phillips 66).
  
  
• Companies invested in LNG projects with lobbyists that have given to HRC’s campaign include Freeport LNG (Elizabeth Gore – Brownstein Hyatt, $500); LNG Allies (Michael Smith – Cornerstone Gov. Affairs – 2700 and a bundler of $59,400); Dominion Resources (Tom Lawler – Lawler Strategies, 2700); Oregon LNG (Robert van Heuvelen VH Strategies – 2700). Exxon also has LNG projects. Cheniere Energy’s Ankit Desai not only gave the maximum allowed, but also bundled $ 139,300 for the campaign. Another donor ($2700) to Clinton’s campaign is Heather Zichal, Obama’s former energy advisor, who joined the board of Cheniere (LNG export company) after leaving the administration.
  
  
• Former Rep. Richard (“Dick”) Gephardt’s firm lobbies for Peabody Energy (coal), Prairie State (coal-fired power plant and adjacent mine), Ameren Services Co. Gephardt and his wife, son and daughter Chrissy all contributed the maximum allowed to Clinton’s campaign (Dick is the only fossil fuel lobbyist in the family). Gephardt, a Democratic Party super delegate, has pledged to support Clinton. In February, the DNC rolled back its previous commitment to not take any contributions from federally registered lobbyists. Clinton’s campaign has also received contributions from lobbyists representing big mining companies — Westmoreland Coal, Arch Coal and Rio Tinto.
  

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more: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaign-updates/hillary-clintons-connection-oil-gas-industry/

This includes:

Lobbyists who have reported lobbying for the oil and gas industry – both in-house company lobbyists and hired lobbyists from “K-Street firms.”
This does not include:

Industry executives
Other employees of the oil and gas industry
Board members
Corporate PAC contributions
Contributions by major investors
Donations to Super PACS or non-profit groups
Contributions made by trade associations to Super PACs
Hillary takes more from lobbyists in general than any other candidate

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaign-updates/hillary-clintons-connection-oil-gas-industry/

[kgnu_fan]

1. K&R

[Orsino]

2. Access. n/t

[Hoyt]

3. Yet she leans green as this article opines. I say take their money to help defeat GOPers, then

laugh in their face if they ask for favors.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-keystone-xl-pipeline-oil-gas-industry-214000

[Armstead]

17. I'm not sure you want to use that artucle to justify her latest flip flops...

....or the likelyhood of flopping back again once she no longer has to pander to those pesky environmentalists.


In the past three weeks, Clinton has leaped to the left on three of Big Oil’s most prized goals: Arctic offshore drilling, the GOP’s plan to allow U.S. oil exports and the Keystone XL pipeline. And fossil-fuel supporters are starting to ask whether the Democrat who once struggled to connect with her party’s green base will prove to be a bigger problem for the industry than they had expected.

Oil and gas players are well aware that Clinton, reckoning with an unexpectedly close primary challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire, has reasons to build her appeal among activists who oppose any new fossil-fuel production. But they wonder if this will herald a permanent policy shift for Clinton, who had rankled greens as secretary of state by overseeing a series of pro-Keystone environmental studies and creating a program to promote fracking overseas.
“In the industry, there’s starting to be a real disconnect here” when it comes to Clinton, said Marty Durbin, president of America’s Natural Gas Alliance and a former Democratic aide. “I don’t know how you put the pieces back together to say, ‘This could be a president that really recognizes the opportunity we have here to meet all of our goals.’

Earlier this year, however, leaders of the American Petroleum Institute sent more positive signals about Clinton than they had offered Obama during his second term.
Regardless of who wins the White House in 2016, “it’s going to be better than what we have now,” American Petroleum Institute director Erik Milito told an audience at April’s Conservative Political Action Conference.





Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-keystone-xl-pipeline-oil-gas-industry-214000#ixzz40vTodHdI

[cali]

30. Unfuckingbelievable. I find Clinton supporter fascinating

[Phlem]

25. You're kidding yourself if you think that's how it's going to work.

But if it makes you happy, I agree, "take their money to help defeat GOPers!"

[roguevalley]

33. I wonder how many of them figure into the indictments? This truly is a character moment if you can

support her.

[Faux pas]

4. K N R

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Oil and and gas lobbyists?

Like Hillary? Say it isn't so!

[RiverLover]

7. Shocking isn't it?

Hillary Clinton's Biggest Campaign Bundlers Are Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers-fossil-fuel_us_55a8335ee4b04740a3df86c5

[elljay]

16. Oh, relax

It's not as if they expect anything from it.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. You will never see this post in "Late Breaking News"

LOL

[bobthedrummer]

8. Inconvenient truths about the New Democrats, the Third Way, Democratic Leadership Council, etc

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2973191

Bring back Glass-Stegall, no more NAFTA, TPP, etc....

And put Henry Kissinger and Richard Bruce Cheney, et.al. on trial

[jhart3333]

9. K&R. More of this please.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. OK...... Here's more: How Green is Hillary?

How Green is Hillary?

Hillary voted with the majority of republicans and against the majority of democrats to erase ethonol requirements for the east and west coast.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....

Hillary voted no with Lieberman and the majority of republicans against eliminating methyl tertiary butyl ether from the US fuel supply.

What is methyl tertiary butyl ether?

Wikki :

Methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) is a chemical compound with molecular formula C5H12O. MTBE is a volatile, flammable and colorless liquid that is highly soluble in water. MTBE has a minty odour vaguely reminiscent of diethyl ether, leading to unpleasant taste and odour in water. MTBE is a gasoline additive, used as an oxygenate and to raise the octane number, although its use has declined in the United States in response to environmental and health concerns. It has been found to easily pollute large quantities of groundwater when gasoline with MTBE is spilled or leaked at gas stations.
In fact, in three seperate bills, Hillary broke with democrats to vote in favor of the use of this chemical in US fuel.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....

Hillary broke with Democrats against ensuring the workers at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site would not receive life insurance, health and life insurance benefits when their environmental work was terminated by the republican majority.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....

Hillary broke ranks with the democrats and voted with the majority of republicans to eliminate the requirement of reusable fuel in US gasoline in 2004.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....

Hillary voted with republicans for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....

To authorize the State of Virginia to petition for authorization to conduct natural gas exploration and drilling activities in the coastal zone of the State.
Hillary didn't vote
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6/4/1390529/-Hillary-s-voting-record

[jhart3333]

11. Ask and ye shall receive!

[tex-wyo-dem]

47. Funny...I read that as...

"Ask and she shall deceive"

[jhart3333]

49. Okay, you made me laugh.

[840high]

52. That's a given.

[PatrynXX]

12. although I no longer consider greenpeace a friend

they are a lobbying group nothing more. if they are just fine with Seal fur trade. they mean nothing to me. But this also goes to the bigger things if 95 % of the ticks I've ticked off as bad are on Hillary, I see her as the enemy. don't care much what name she's running under. She stands for 95 % of the things I'm against. Getting tired of this sad seeing Demcs attacking other Dems. Hey 1. it's election year it's always tense always name calling. Get over it. 2. yes I can attack her. She's not Queen H. If she ends up being President I'll continue to attack her if she continue's to support the majority of the things I'm against.

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. What don't you aprove of with Greenpeace?

From their website:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/where-does-greenpeace-stand-on-seal-hunting/

Greenpeace is completely against the commercial hunting of seals for profit. We always will be.

They make a distinction between commercial seal hunting together with the Canadian government hunt vs. the native's traditional right to hunt seal. Would you deny aboriginals the right to hunt for food they have done for thousands of years? (And which has the side effect of more fish to fish for)

[rnk6670]

13. How does she have any progressive supporters?

She's a blatant corporate shill.

[GummyBearz]

21. She has something Bernie doesn't

A vagina.

Seriously, she does have one, and he does not.

[AzDar]

14. Dirty.

[Ferd Berfel]

15. HEy wherer are the CLinton people

telling us this dosent' matter.

Ignore the money behind the curtain.....

[Waiting For Everyman]

18. The quid pro quo costs a lot, so she needs them. nt

[asuhornets]

19. So. I'm still voting for her...n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. You forgot

SO THERE!!!

[asuhornets]

31. What tha ...n/t

[PeterGM]

23. To Sanders supporters:

You guys should understand that people that support Clinton do not care about campaign finance. They do not care about the environment or income inequality. They care about strength, image and economic stability. They care about gender equality, women's rights and the historical and global significance of the first female president. They care about heavy handed intervention in the middle east, not just leaving them to their own fate. Most importantly they do not believe, like you do, that the system is broken and that the US is in trouble, they want security that tomorrow is gonna be just as good a day as today.

if you look at the polls and see that 30% of Americans think that the country is on the right track. Those are your Hillary Clinton supporters, and there are a lot of them.

[cali]

28. Yep. And they have fits if you say that

I think the priorities of Clinton fans are far too narrow.

[PeterGM]

35. The world isn't black and white.

There are latinos too.... jk
They see your plight of helping the poor middle class and future generations as a narrow priority...

[arcane1]

40. Exactly, they care about politicians more than principles.

Thanks for admitting it. Anyone who thinks "the country is on the right track" is either not paying attention, or they're fucking blind.

[PeterGM]

45. I think you misunderstood me.

I'm a wholehearted Sanders supporter but I'm a Dane and I wanted to give my input, given we have a much more diverse multi party system.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Not contributions. They are investments with an expectation of returns.

Obviously, they aren't investing Sanders because a) he wouldn't accept it, and b) they can have no expectations of return on their investments.

It's called capitalism.

[restorefreedom]

39. yes! we need to start calling it what it is. an INVESTMENT. nt

[Phlem]

26. But, but, but.................Susan Sarandon!

[cali]

27. How much cog/dis do you have to pile up to support this woman?????

[INdemo]

29. Somewhere in the midst of these companies

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In the group of investors wanna bet the Koch Bros have a vested interest with one or more of the companies

[Jezza]

42. agreed

...koch industries is everywhere.

heck, one of their sister companies manufactured the carpet which Obama stood for his inauguration.

Ref / Dark Money, by Jane Mayer (pub2016)

[captainarizona]

32. rethinking my support

I was going to vote for bernie ;but now I wonder if he is tough enough to be president. He has really won all three contests but does not demand the final vote count in Iowa which the clintonistas that run the Iowa democratic party refuse to make public and now I was watching cnn and they were showing out of state clinton activists caucusing with nevada democrats. The bernie thread which has blocked me for saying bernie needs to appeal more to minority voters is mentioning other fraud attempts, yet I hearing nothing from bernie denouncing this stuff. So I wonder is he tough enough?

[w4rma]

34. Bernie left a paid employee in Iowa to handle that. (nt)

[captainarizona]

36. thats not good enough

Bernie should denouce this stuff. That is why I wonder if he is tough enough.

[w4rma]

37. Just because you didn't hear it over everything else going on doesn't mean it didn't happen. (nt)

[restorefreedom]

38. well, green energy was a nice thought.......nt

[Petrushka]

41. K & R

More info to post on my Facebook page.

Thank you!

[bobthedrummer]

43. bttt

[olddots]

44. thats why it's Her Turn

[Octafish]

46. It's the life's blood of politics.

Oil.

[Unknown Beatle]

48. It's all right there in black and white,

and it's very obvious that they give to Hillary in a quid pro quo arrangement, and then she'll say she's a progressive and she's going to fight these companies and corporations, and Hillary supporters believe her.

People just don't give huge amounts of money out of the goodness of their hearts, they expect something in return. Okay, let's just say they're giving her money because they want her to be president and then she says she's going to reign them in. Why would they continue to give her money if they already know that shes against them? It's precisely because they know they'll get a quid pro quo if she becomes president.

Now, about those transcripts, Hillary, when are you going to make them public? Hell, you said you went to Wall St. and told them to cut it out, remember? If you're correct about that, then you have nothing to hide. Saying that you'll release them when they all do is just an excuse. If you're a leader like you claim to be, release them first and maybe, by your example, the rest will follow. But you won't, because those transcripts will reveal that all you did was kiss butt to Goldman Sachs and you told them how you'll treat them if and when you're elected president, which is with kid gloves and tax breaks.

[jillan]

50. If she gets elected we can kiss all the progress President Obama made at the Int'l Climate Change

Coalition.

This scares me.

[840high]

51. K/R - I think you

would have a very short list if you just listed who she has NOT received $$$ from.

[bobthedrummer]

53. ^

[azmom]

54. Kick

[bobthedrummer]

55. kick

[bobthedrummer]

56. ^^^

[Octafish]

57. A lot of lucrative speeches to Canada's banks doing XL Pipeline business.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/31/hillary-clinton-speeches-keystone_n_7463108.html