The backroom green Tory dealings that made energy expensive again
Wrapping sleaze in eco-piety gives the dodgy outfits that lobby and fund political parties a free pass.
Gas prices are high, Ben, because you and people you are very close to and work with campaigned, lobbied, and litigated against domestic gas production and investment throughout Europe.
This crisis is on you more than most people.
There is no such thing as a "global gas price" -- hence gas prices are lower in the USA, where fracking was allowed to happen, and which is now exporting gas to Europe.
There have been three tory governments in twelve years, and all of them buckled under pressure from the green blob.
Ben Goldsmith is chair of the green Tory pressure group, the Conservative Environment Network. He has some other interesting positions too.
Fellow board member and co-founder, Ben Caldecott (yes, everyone born in the 1970s was called Ben), also has some positions that should raise the eyebrows of anyone trying to work out why energy prices are rising.
Caldecott leads the Stranded Assets Programme at Oxford University -- a campaign to persuade financial institutions and investors not to put their money into fossil fuels, and which lobbies for ESG.
Meanwhile, CEN is funded by the European Climate Foundation (ECF). ECF also fund left wing organisations like NEF, and radical movements like XR.
ECF is a strategic grant-making political campaigning organisation, styled as a 'charity'. Its main donor and founder is Christopher Hohn, who funds ECF through the philanthropic arm of his investment firm TCI, called the Children's Investment Fund Foundation...
Hohn cares so much about children, you see, that his investment fund bought shares in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Phillip Morris. It was also responsible for the collapse of RBS. But that's another story.
CIFF and ECF are both closely directed by Hohn. Since 2013, Hohn's CIFF has made more than half a $billion of grants to climate activist organisations. Organisations like the two Ben's CEN, and organisations such as XR.
All those millions, with more provided by other billionaires, too, were used to lobby and pressure government and parliament, the EU, the BOI and financial institutions -- and many more besides -- to make it harder for investors in energy production. This is the Bens' work...
So when Ben G says that high energy prices are not the fault of green policies, he knows that's not true. He knows that it's not true, because making energy expensive was the clear objective of his mate, CEN co-founder, Ben C's work.
Caldecott is an architect of ESG, and Hohn, and other billionaires and corporations, through CIFF and ECF have pumped many $billions into ESG campaigns -- shareholder activist organisations, litigation, and propaganda. And this is the result...
Prove me wrong.
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