Huzzah! Billionaires for Coal Party Down in Atlanta

The Billionaires for Coal are busy these days. Making appearances in New York, North Carolina and now Atlanta over the past few weeks, they must be getting worried that the grassroots anti-coal climate movement is taking off.

In Atlanta the Billionaires held a cocktail party outside the “Climate Change: The Issue, Registries, Forestry Offsets & Strategies” Conference at the Wyndham Hotel in Midtown Atlanta on Friday, to celebrate the proposed construction of a new 850 MW coal-fired power plant by Power4Georgians.

Today, RAN rolled out Adopt a Branch. Billionaires are notorious for partying in solidarity with the corporate execs at Citi and Bank of America, I’m sure they will be adopting some bank branches of their own very soon.

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Posted on 18 July 2008

Tags: adoptabranch, billionaires-for-coal, climate, dirtymoney, globalfinance, No New Coal

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Scott Parkin currently works as Rainforest Action Network's Senior Campaigner on the Global Finance Campaign targeting mountaintop removal, the government agencies which allow it and the banks that fund it. Scott has worked in anti-corporate globalization, anti-war, labor and environmental movements for over a decade. Originally from Texas, Scott lives in San Francisco. Scott can be found on Twitter: @sparki1969

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3 Comments For This Post I'd Love to Hear Yours!

francis says:

July 19, 2008 at 11:34 pm

haha awesome i’d love to see one over here too, with passion! greenpeace did one at our proposed plant area last month but didn’t really take much attention,which was sad.
vlazlowe says:

July 25, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Poetic! but you left out the lawyers!
vlazlowe says:

July 25, 2008 at 11:03 pm

Drive by litigation is happening on multiple levels on a multitude of fronts.
As we race to save ourselves what IS forgotten is what we endure as a society.
It is foremost as individuals is to do what is best and trust that you have a friend