Environmental activists like Tom Steyer, George Soros, Al Gore and organizations like Nature Conservancy have profited—and continue to profit—from investments in the very fossil fuels they campaign against. The New York Post,
“Consider George Soros, the world’s richest hedge-fund manager. He supports groups… which all oppose the job-creating innovation known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Yet Soros himself recently bought a giant stake in CONSOL Energy, a company actively involved in fracking. Hmm . . .
“Even Al Gore took a fossil-fuel payday. He sold his TV channel to Al Jazeera Media Network, a foreign news outfit heavily backed by oil money… Weeks later, Gore released a book in which he blames the poor state of the climate-change debate on the fact that “virtually every news and political-commentary program on television is sponsored in part by oil, coal and gas companies.”
“As for Steyer, he left his $20 billion hedge fund back in 2012, promising to pull his personal holdings from “ecologically unsound” investments… Did he back up his loud, proud, moral stand by immediately dumping his energy assets, no matter the personal loss? Hah: Steyer waited until market conditions were optimal for reaping some final profits from the energy sector…
“In one notable scandal, the Nature Conservancy raised millions from well-intentioned donors to buy land to help protect a threatened species, the Attwater’s prairie chicken, from extinction… But after the purchase, it approved oil drilling there. The endangered birds are no longer on the land, but the group continues to grow rich off of oil profits…”
