Bush, the rainforest and a gas pipeline to enrich his friends

[mpsteve]

Plan would enrich Bush corporate campaign contributors

By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
30 July 2003


President George Bush is seeking funds for a controversial project to drive gas pipelines from pristine rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon to the coast.

The plan will enrich some of Mr Bush's closest corporate campaign contributors while risking the destruction of rainforest, threatening its indigenous peoples and endangering rare species on the coast.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=428887

Hey, y'all, maybe we should e-mail the Chair and the Ranking Member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and tell them to stop wasting our money!!! Here is the link and don't forget to copy the senator of your home state!!!

http://energy.senate.gov/

[whoYaCallinAlib]

1. Hey mpsteve! Thanks for the post.

I'm sending my emails post-haste.

[umcwb]

2. Locking - Dupe

Please continue here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=41590&mesg_id=41590



Thanks,
UMCWB
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