(Part 3) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 3) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/10/13/343318/americans-for-prosperity-campaign-activities/


Anti-Climate Americans For Prosperity Claims To Not Be Politically Active After Launching Attack Ads 

The conservative Americans for Prosperity reported to the IRS that the organization does not engage in political activities even though it reported to the Federal Election Commission that it spent $1.3 million on political radio spots and television ads. During the 2010 midterm elections, the organization unleashed these anti-clean energy ads. According to ClimateWire, AFP’s answer matters because it removes the political expenditure information, which the IRS uses to determine if the group can maintain its tax-exempt status and continue to hide its donors’ identities. An AFP spokeswoman said the ads are not political activity under the FEC’s definition because they don’t tell voters to support or oppose certain candidates. But Lloyd Mayer, associate dean of the Notre Dame Law School, said, “Under the federal tax law … they are clearly political campaign activity.”


http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/09/koch-brothers-game-the-system-at-keystone-xl-public-meetings/

Koch Brothers Interfere At Keystone XL Public Meeting

http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/09/koch-brothers-game-the-system-at-keystone-xl-public-meetings/

Yesterday, the State Department kicked off the final round of public meetings on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Kansas, the home state of the billionaire industrialist brothers, Charles and David Koch. The Koch brothers are notorious for funding anti-environment, anti-progressive, and anti-Democratic astroturf campaigns. According to a report by Greenpeace, they even outdid ExxonMobile in funding climate denial groups since 2005. The Koch brothers are also President Obama’s bitterest political rivals.
Unsurprisingly, the Koch brothers’ front group Americans for Prosperity was gaming the system at the Keystone XL public meeting in Topeka, Kansas, attempting to prevent community members opposed to the pipeline from expressing their views to the State Department. ...

Americans for Prosperity: Distorting climate change science and ...

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/03/18/americans-for-prosperity-distorting-climate-change-science-and-economics-in-well-funded-campaign/

Mar 18, 2010 – Americans for Prosperity (AFP), part of a network of libertarian .... Wilson Center panel: “Is the Keystone XL pipeline in the national interest?” ...

Americans for Prosperity: Astroturf.Org | Pete Altman's Blog ...

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/americans_for_prosperity_astro_1.html

Aug 6, 2009 – Top Stories: Anti-Environmental Riders · Keystone XL Pipeline ... Home › Contributors › Pete Altman › Americans for Prosperity: Astroturf.Org ...

Koch Industries, Keystone XL Pipeline…a BP on the Prairie? | HPUB ...

http://huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.org/2011/08/23/koch-industries-keystone-xl-pipeline-a-bp-on-the-prairie/

Aug 23, 2011 – TransCanada, the Keystone XL Pipeline and Koch Industries .... bankrolling the think tanks like FreedomWorks and Americans For Prosperity, ...

- (Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-1-koch-company-declared.html

- (Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-2-koch-company-declared.html

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-3-koch-company-declared.html

(Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

Document filed with Canada's Energy Board appears to cast doubt on claims by Koch Industries that it has no interest in the controversial pipeline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/05/koch-keystone-xl-pipeline 

In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has "nothing to do with any of our businesses."
But the company has told Canadian energy regulators a different story.

In 2009, Flint Hills Resources Canada LP, an Alberta-based subsidiary of Koch Industries, applied for—and won—"intervenor status" in the National Energy Board hearings that led to Canada's 2010 approval of its 327-mile portion of the pipeline. The controversial project would carry heavy crude 1,700 miles from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.

In the form it submitted to the Energy Board, Flint Hills wrote that it "is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters. Consequently, Flint Hills has a direct and substantial interest in the application" for the pipeline under consideration.

To be approved as an intervenor, Flint Hills had to have some degree of "business interest" in Keystone XL, Carole Léger-Kubeczek, a National Energy Board spokeswoman, told InsideClimate News. Intervenors are granted the highest level of access in hearings, with the option to ask questions. The Energy Board approved Canada's segment of the pipeline with little opposition, and Flint Hills did not exercise its right to speak. ...

...
Deep Involvement in Oil Sands Trade

The controversy over the Kochs and the pipeline was sparked by an InsideClimate News report from February. That analysis, also published on Reuters.com and later cited by various news organizations, found that Flint Hills is deeply involved in the Canada-Alberta oil sands trade and is well positioned to benefit if more heavy crude is exported to the United States.

The Koch brothers own nearly all of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States. The energy and manufacturing conglomerate earns an estimated $100 billion in annual revenue from its network of subsidiaries—a mix of oil, gas, pipeline, chemical, fertilizer and paper and pulp companies. In addition to its Canadian operation, Koch's Flint Hills subsidiary operates oil refineries in Alaska, Texas and Minnesota as well as a dozen fuel terminals in the Midwest and Texas. ...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines


In June 2003, the US Commerce Department fined Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources a $200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the company exported crude petroleum from the US to Canada without proper US government authorization. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, Koch Petroleum (later called Flint Hill Resources) committed 40 violations of Export Administration Regulations.^[41]
In 2006, Koch Industries’ subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another $60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.^[42]


http://www.epa-echo.gov/cgi-bin/get1cReport.cgi?IDNumber=HQ-2008-0001&tool=eiciECHO

- Enforcement Case Report        
For Public Release - Unrestricted Dissemination.   Report Generated on 10/18/11
US Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
   
- Case Number:     HQ-2008-0001        
Total Federal Penalty* Assessed or Agreed To (not necessarily an admission of liability)  Total Compliance Action Cost  $2,000,000     

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KOCH INDUSTRIES has paid over $288,000,000.00 fines and penalties for pollution poisoning. This does not count the $293,000,000.00 jury award (or whatever the final secret settlement was) for the negligent homicide of Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone.

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-danielle-dawn.html

Killer Koch Brothers -- Koch Industries Organized Crime Killed Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone. http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-koch-industries.html

Koch Industries Pollution Poison http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-pollution-poison.html

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-2-koch-company-declared.html

(Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

What’s that smell? Keystone XL

http://blog.sfgate.com/mbrune/2011/10/12/keystone-xl/


... Keystone XL, after all, is a 1,700-mile pipeline that will do nothing for Americans except seize their land through eminent domain, expose them to catastrophic oil spills and toxic pollution, and make domestic gas more expensive — all so a foreign oil company, TransCanada, can ship its tar-sands oil overseas from our ports. It’s such a bad idea that, in Texas, the Sierra Club and the Tea Party actually allied to oppose it.

... The more Americans learn about Keystone XL and the big-money campaign behind it, the worse the whole thing smells. Whether or not to permit this travesty is still one of the most important decisions facing President Obama. It’s time for him to clear the air, kill this Koch brothers-backed pipeline, and let the State Department get back to issuing passports and visas. http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/20111010_Nov6_TarSandsRallyRSVP.html

Koch Bros. Accused of Stonewalling Congress on Their Keystone XL Pipeline Interest

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/idUS336798587820110525


... Representatives for billionaire brothers and oil magnates Charles and David Koch — major donors to GOP elections and influential conservative organizations — are evidently stonewalling the California Democrat about their possible financial interest in seeing the permit approved for TransCanada's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline. ...


... "This pipeline and the legislation that supports it will enable the oil companies to charge American consumers more for their gasoline, while increasing carbon pollution and endangering precious water supplies," he continued. "We know who will lose. We also need to find out who will benefit." ...


... In February, the Los Angeles Times tallied up what kind of influence Koch might have on the House Energy and Commerce Committee via campaign contributions. Republicans, who gained a resounding majority in the lower chamber after the November midterm elections, started calling the shots at the House committee when the 112th Congress convened in January. L.A. Times reporters found that Koch donations to panel members outpaced even that of mega-energy companies such as Exxon Mobil. Records show that Koch and its employees gave $279,500 to 22 of the energy committee’s 31 Republicans and $32,000 to five Democrats. ...

... Is It All About the Money?
Koch Industries' representatives told Waxman's staff last week that their company has neither invested in Keystone XL nor taken a public stance on the pipeline project. But Waxman said they would not reveal if Koch would use the new pipeline to export oil from Canada, if the company has tar sands leases or if it has plans to produce oil from tar sands. "These are legitimate questions," Waxman pointed out. "Koch is a large political donor and a major backer of the tea party. Members and the public are entitled to know whether the company would be a prime beneficiary of this legislation." ...

... "There appears to be a significant discrepancy between the published reports that Koch Industries would be 'big winners' if the pipeline is approved and the statement of the Koch representatives that the pipeline has 'nothing to do' with Koch's businesses," Waxman and Rush wrote in their May 20 letter....

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-1-koch-company-declared.html