Yet another prominent Green German anti-nuke joins a dangerous fossil fuel pipeline company.

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There is no program for disposing permanently of dangerous fossil fuel waste, stopping observed dangerous fossil fuel terrorism, preventing dangerous fossil fuel accidents, stopping dangerous fossil fuel depletion or apparently, to prevent dangerous fossil fuel companies from purchasing government officials outright:

Representatives of the Nabucco consortium in Vienna have confirmed that Joschka Fischer—former Green Party leader and foreign minister in the former Social Democratic Party (SPD)-Green government—has taken a post as adviser to the Nabucco pipeline project, in which the German RWE company is also involved. According to media reports, the “six-digit salary” consultancy contract has already been signed.

Fischer is following in the footsteps of his former coalition partner, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD), who also has a lucrative post in the energy industry. The two men, however, are working in direct competition with one another. Just a few months after the change of government at the end of 2005, Schröder took up a lucrative position as head of the supervisory board of the NEGP pipeline consortium, which is building a pipeline under the Baltic Sea in close cooperation with the Russian energy group Gazprom.

Fischer’s job now is to speed up the rival Nabucco project, which is supported by both the European Union and the American government, and seeks to transport natural gas from the Caspian region to Europe, bypassing Russia en route. The project has been at a virtual standstill for some years.

The crux of the Nabucco project lies in Turkey. The planned pipeline is to run from Ankara eastward to the Azerbaijani port of Baku on the Caspian Sea, via Georgia. The gas is then to flow westward over Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, to Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/fisc-j03.shtml

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1. The previous administration's legacy of money trumps peace is a hard

habit to break.

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2. Well it is true that the Americans are involved in this deal, but the German Greens are the main

people accepting huge piles of cash here.

If we add just another ex-Schroeder official to the pile here, we'll be a cool million euros per year on this deal to make the world safe for Gazprom.