UN BALI LOCK OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTIC NEWSPAPER
December 7th 2007 05:33
CONSERVATIVE ANTI-GREEN NEWSPAPER SEES RED OVER BEING LOCKED OUT OF UN BALI CONFERENCE
A group of reporters representing the conservative newspaper Environment & Climate News were refused press credentials to attend the UN's climate change meeting in Bali, according to Newsbbusters.org
Environment & Climate News is published by the Heartland Institute, which released a statement saying the UN’s Conference of the Parties in Bali “lost any claim of impartiality when organisers rejected attempts by representatives of Environment & Climate News to receive press accreditation for the conference.
“UN press office coordinator Carrie Assheuer said the newspaper's representatives ‘do not meet the criteria for press accreditation.’
“Environment & Climate News has been in continual publication for 10 years; is sent to more than 75,000 elected officials, opinion leaders, and environmental professionals in the US and is one of five newspapers published the by 23-year-old Heartland Institute.”
ExxonSecrets.org maintains that the Heartland Institute has received annual donations from Exxon-Mobil raging from $US100,000 to $200,000.
ExxonSecrets.org is a Green Peace project, and has this to say about Heartland: “Founded in the early 1990s, Heartland Institute claims to apply cutting-edge research to state and local public policy issues.’ Additionally, Heartland bills itself as ‘the marketing arm of the free-market movement.’
The Heartland Institute created a website in the spring of 2007, Really Long Link which asserts there is no scientific consensus on global warming and features a list of experts and a list of like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from ExxonMobil and other polluters.
“The Heartland Institute networks heavily with other conservative policy organisations, and is part of the State Policy Network, a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, and co-sponsored the 2001 Fly In for Freedom with the Wise Use umbrella group, Alliance for America.
“Heartland also co-sponsored a New York state Conference on Property Rights, hosted by the Property Rights Foundation of America.
“The institute puts out several publications, including Environment & Climate News which frequently features anti-environmentalist and climate sceptic writing. They also published Earth Day '96, a compilation of articles on environmental topics, which denied the serious nature of ozone depletion and global warming.
Walter F. Buchholtz, an ExxonMobil executive, serves as Heartland's government relations advisor, according to Heartland's 2005 IRS form.”
- From MediaBlab by Peter Olszewski via Dow Jones' Factiva
A group of reporters representing the conservative newspaper Environment & Climate News were refused press credentials to attend the UN's climate change meeting in Bali, according to Newsbbusters.org
Environment & Climate News is published by the Heartland Institute, which released a statement saying the UN’s Conference of the Parties in Bali “lost any claim of impartiality when organisers rejected attempts by representatives of Environment & Climate News to receive press accreditation for the conference.
“Environment & Climate News has been in continual publication for 10 years; is sent to more than 75,000 elected officials, opinion leaders, and environmental professionals in the US and is one of five newspapers published the by 23-year-old Heartland Institute.”
ExxonSecrets.org maintains that the Heartland Institute has received annual donations from Exxon-Mobil raging from $US100,000 to $200,000.
ExxonSecrets.org is a Green Peace project, and has this to say about Heartland: “Founded in the early 1990s, Heartland Institute claims to apply cutting-edge research to state and local public policy issues.’ Additionally, Heartland bills itself as ‘the marketing arm of the free-market movement.’
The Heartland Institute created a website in the spring of 2007, Really Long Link which asserts there is no scientific consensus on global warming and features a list of experts and a list of like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from ExxonMobil and other polluters.
“Heartland also co-sponsored a New York state Conference on Property Rights, hosted by the Property Rights Foundation of America.
“The institute puts out several publications, including Environment & Climate News which frequently features anti-environmentalist and climate sceptic writing. They also published Earth Day '96, a compilation of articles on environmental topics, which denied the serious nature of ozone depletion and global warming.
Walter F. Buchholtz, an ExxonMobil executive, serves as Heartland's government relations advisor, according to Heartland's 2005 IRS form.”
- From MediaBlab by Peter Olszewski via Dow Jones' Factiva
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