The oil sands has become the main target ... for radical green groups. The recent decision ... to hold up approval of the ... Keystone XL pipeline was a major coup, and has encouraged radical NGOs to up their campaigns of lies and intimidation.
Last year, ForestEthics, a veteran of anti-corporate thuggery, sent a demand to Chiquita. ... a grovelling response committing “to directing our transportation providers to avoid, where possible, fuels from tar sands refineries ...”
... California-based ForestEthics, an anti-capitalist organization that is ... has run roughshod over truth and jobs for too long. Its previous corporate victims included U.S. clothing giant Limited Brands... Rather than attempt to refute ForestEthics misrepresentations, Limited Brands paid to “work with” the NGO, thus setting a precedent for green extortion. ... Trader Joe’s ... Walmart and Safeway...
... British bath products company Lush, which gets its scientific objectivity from ForestEthics’ fellows Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network. ...
... another enormous symbolic victory last year ... an agreement with the Forest Products Association of Canada ...
... ForestEthics used Chiquita’s letter to bolster its attack on rival fruit company Dole. “Dole Bananas: Brought to you by dirty Tar Sands oil,” claims the ForestEthics website ... Dole’s response? To grovel.
... let’s have a full accounting from ForestEthics of all the money they have received from the corporations who have been bullied into “working with them.”
... green-cloaked shakedown artists dictating corporate policy on the basis of misinformation and intimidation.
Four years ago, Chiquita paid a stiff fine for buying mafia-style “protection” from South American thugs masquerading as freedom fighters. Is trying to buy protection from the mendacious green lobby any different?
Thursday, December 29, 2011
ForestEthics running a protection racket
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Nope, it is exactly the same thing: thugs using thug tactics.
The attack on environmentalists is beyond belief. After years of corporate thuggery in raping and polluting the planet, those who attempt to rectify the situation and protect the Earth are vilified worse that the corporate Wall Street criminals who destroyed the economy.Unbelievable!
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