Super PAC Credits Hillary Clinton for Selling Fracking to the World

[cali]

While Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign boasts ambitious green goals, like installing half a billion solar panels and generating enough renewable energy to power every American home, a pro-Clinton super PAC (political action committee) champions her record in promoting fossil fuel production. Ironically, that super PAC is named Correct the Record.

Enabled by a recent advisory opinion by the Federal Election Commission, Correct the Record has reportedly collaborated directly with the Clinton campaign. Led by Clinton ally David Brock, Correct the Record spun off from American Bridge PAC in May and received attention in September when it went negative on candidate Bernie Sanders, despite Clinton’s commitment not to do so.

Correct the Record set up the webpage Hillary Clinton: Fueling America’s Energy Future as one of 26 different “Record Analyses.” All 11 major points made on the webpage tout Clinton’s last two years as Secretary of State. About half of the page’s talking points are devoted to giving Clinton credit for the Obama administration’s use of natural gas as a geopolitical tool, even citing Russia, Ukraine and Putin in section headings.

For example:

“Sec. Clinton significantly elevated the role of energy as a driver of foreign policy.”

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The full scope of Clinton’s promotion of fracking and natural gas as geopolitical tools during her tenure as Secretary of State continues to be exposed. Among the State Department’s New Year’s Eve release of Clinton emails, an April 2012 email from then Sec. of Energy Steven Chu to Clinton followed up on their prior conversation “about how—U.S. companies and the USG—can help other countries develop the shale oil and gas with hydraulic fracking in an environmentally responsible way.” Per Chu, “The responsible development of these resources can change the energy and geo-political landscape in profound ways.

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http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/10/clinton-correct-the-record/

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. And then there's Bernie who has stated Climate Change as the most important issue facing this

country. The contrast is huge.

She shouldn't be anywhere bear the WH. A vote for her, is a vote to destroy what's left of our planet through pollution, greed and wars.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Helen Borg]

2. Well done Hillary.

[BeanMusical]

3. "boasts ambitious green goals"

Yeah, she's as green as a ton of coal.

[Duval]

4. What? Don't you know how successful hydraulic fracking is? Why it's

given us earthquakes and dirty water! As for the oil, oh well. (sarcasm) A well written and need-to-know OP, Cali. Thank you!

[Betty Karlson]

5. Clinton is a GE trainwreck waiting to happen.

Just like 2014, another "success" of DINO-Debbie's "leadership".

Except this time, the trainwreck doesn't just wait to happen: it feels entitled to happen.

[JRLeft]

6. Why vote republican lite when you can vote for the real thing?