The climateer’s nuisance lawsuits against energy companies continue as woke activists get cities or counties to claim climate damages and then sue for compensation. The cases end up in court for years, but there may be a simpler, cheaper, less carbon-intensive solution.
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It is a strategy that was worked up back in 2016 when ‘stakeholders’ met at Harvard.
Back in 2016 UCS hosted a secret event at Harvard. Many State’s Attorneys General and staff got free freight to and fro. The purpose of the event was to strategize how to sue climate deniers. Jackpot justice scenarios (like this one). Where states could collect big payouts from oil or gas companies. Free national earned media for the issue and the suit. Significant exposure for AG’s and their offices. With the aid of private climate-justice attorneys strategically placed in AG’s offices.
This plot goes back further, but the 2016 meeting implicates a frequent presence in New Hampshire. The UCS. And you already know this story. Well, some of it.
The March 2016 Harvard meeting was followed by the now infamous March 29th publicity stunt by NY AG Eric Schneiderman. Al Gore was there as were other AG’s including the AG from Vermont. States suing major oil companies and others for aiding and abetting evils against the globe. Issuing subpoena’s for records of donations to determine who they may have paid off to promote their denier narratives.
That plan didn’t have the legs they’d hoped, but climate loons in copycat counties and cities have since picked up the green baton and tried to run.
The case, brought by Boulder County, Colorado against Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil, seeks monetary relief for the companies’ decision to burn fossil fuels and allegedly “conceal” the associated dangers, which the county argues “caused, accelerated, an[d] exacerbated the impacts of climate change.” While the companies have appealed the case to the Supreme Court, it still has to decide on the question of jurisdiction, and whether or not the case should be heard in state or federal court.
Regardless of what the US Supreme Court decides, the suits will be tried somewhere, favorable or not, and if there are enough of them, the odds are good somewhere a city or county will win. Good for them. Now make them live up to the green promise. Stop providing these so-called planet-killing fossil fuels to your accusers. Cut them off.
You’d have to get your competitors to buy in (or out) and to blockade the green weenies, but if you could, how long before the people they claim to represent kick them all out of office and beg for natural gas and motor fuel?
I know that hypothetical will never happen. It’ll take government interference to make dry fossil fuel counties a reality. Not to save the planet. It’ll be incompetence or malfeasance.
Marxists don’t care about anything but money and power, comrade, which is ironic. There is a lot of money in Oil. Real money, with value – the kind of money they don’t want in the hands of their political opponents. So maybe they should become Big Oil’s best friend. Make them an offer they can’t refuse. Decalre fossil fuel use as a form of social justice or a shadow of a penumbra of something like reproductive rights.
It’ll never happen. Cheap, abundant energy – at least in America, comes with the risk of prosperity, an enlarged middle class, more disposable income that might find its way to political opponents, and less ability to exert top-down control.
Marxists love money and power, but they love control more.
Big Oil cutting off a county would be branded as irresponsible, immoral, and perhaps illegal. Meddling corporation But when the Marxists in Gov. Inc. do it intentionally or as a by-product of bad policy, it will be for the common good, Comrade.
