NRDC - The Organization Behind Most of
the Natural Gas Opposition
The following article is well worth
reading. It notes that Frances Beinecke,
the President of the Natural Resources
Defense Council made $432,000 last
year. Her non-profit organization also
reported having in excess of $232
million in assets and employed more than
100 people full-time.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/dont-expect-objectivity-from-this-obama-oil-spill-commission-appointee-97624059.html
Why is this important? Because NRDC is
the force behind the Open Space
institute, the Catskill Mountainkeeper
and the Riverkeeper. All these entities
are linked and represent the same
individuals, primarily members of the
Kennedy and Rockefeller families and the
latter's friends from the Lew Beach area
of Sullivan County. If you check the
names of the Boards of Directors of
these entities you'll see what I mean -
they are all the same people acting
under different names and they are
extraordinarily well funded and
rewarding themselves handsomely.
They have also been giving jobs to their
children. Ramsey Adams, for example,
who serves as the Catskill
Mountainkeeper's paid Executive
Director, is the son of John Adams, who
is a board member not only of the
Catskill Mountainkeeper, but also the
Riverkeeper and OSI, of which he was the
Founding Director and is currently
chair. Laurance Rockefeller is a NRDC
Trustee. He is heavily involved with
OSI (partly funded with Rockefeller
Brothers Fund grants) and the
Mountainkeeper program (funded and
managed as an extension of OSI). Renee
Rockefeller (his cousin's wife) is on
the Riverkeeper Board and helps manage
the Rockefeller Family Fund. Robert
Kennedy, Jr. is a NRDC legal counsel and
on the Mountainkeeper and Riverkeeper
boards. Frances Beinecke is a
co-founder of the New York League of
Conservation Voters (along with Laurence
Rockefeller) I could go on and on, but
the pattern is obvious - these are all
the same people doing the same thing
thing but using different identities and
it is not a pretty picture. To get a
better idea of the networks, one can
simply visit the websites of these
organizations and check out the "About"
pages. For those who are interested,
the networking can also be tracked
through:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6898
These are the very wealthy people trying
to take the bread off our table.
Thomas J. Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company
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