it seems that in AUSTRALIA you have to for transparency declare and make available where you get your donations from/ in the states it gets messy. here is one part of it.Many environmental “charity” and deductible gift recipient organisations are undertaking activities
that are well outside the scope of the definition of “advocacy” and many of these activities are
contrary to community expectations of the behaviour of charitable or organisations eligible for tax
deductible donations.
Charities are expected to help poor or vulnerable people, not to further foreign commercial or
political interests by undertaking or promoting illegal activities.
Most of these groups are only championing the environmental cause as a veneer for other agendas.
These groups represent a “marriage of convenience” between anti-capitalist and crony-capitalist
interests. The anti-capitalists are targeting fossil fuels because they realise the extremely strong
linkage between our economic vitality and cheap, accessible and reliable energy resources. The
ultimate financial backers of most of these groups, however, are the crony capitalists, who want to
further their commercial interests by creating a political and social environment that is conducive to
providing economic rents on their massive and potential trillion-dollar investments in so-called
“renewable” energy sources.
In some cases, such as the recent allegations about the Sea Change Foundation, the crony capitalists
are funding activists in order to further their existing interests in mining and gas producers that are
located in countries with which we compete for market share. The activist organisations have
limited or no presence in these competitor countries.
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