-Caveat Lector- US climate talks chief 'recommended by oil company'
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor (Filed: 15/05/2002) President Bush's chief negotiator on climate change was recommended to the White House by ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, according to a leaked memorandum seen by The Telegraph. Dr Harlan Watson, who is on a tour of Britain, was named in a memo last June from Randy Randol, of ExxonMobil's Washington Office, to John Howard, a White House official. It was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. ExxonMobil urged Mr Bush to oust British-born Robert Watson as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has called for urgent action to tackle global warming. He was replaced last month by the Indian environmentalist R K Pachauri. ExxonMobil made a number of other recommendations, including restructuring the US delegates to IPCC meetings "to assure none of the Clinton/Gore proponents are involved in any decisional activities". The last recommendation in the memo was to "explore the possibility" of persuading the speaker of the House of Representatives to make Dr Watson, then working for the energy sub-committee, "available to work with the team [the US team working with the IPCC]." Dr Watson was appointed in September to an even more senior role, as senior negotiator on climate change. After a speaking engagement at the Foreign Office's Wilton Park in Steyning, Sussex, yesterday Dr Watson said: "No undue influence was used in my appointment. "ExxonMobil haven't had any influence since I've been there. I've had no comment at all from them while in this position." Ben Stewart, a Greenpeace spokesman, said: "Who can now doubt that US policy is being steered by the world's largest oil company?" ------------------------ "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes." http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
