One of the proud proclamations the Center for Climate Strategies
makes whenever they start managing a new climate commission for a state
is that their “process is fully transparent.” That can be challenged on
a few different points, and none more so than the issue of how much they get paid to do their work (that is, advance their agenda) for each state and how much the alarmist foundations (like Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Energy Foundation) are paying them.
Exhibit A is with the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group (KEEP), that state’s counterpart to North Carolina’s Climate Action Plan Advisory Group. KEEP was created and populated by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. If you read the “Process Memo”
(PDF) posted at the KEEP site (which lays out the ground rules for the
group and its process) you will notice that under the “Project Budget”
section there is only this statement: “The estimated CCS budget for
completion of startup and completion of the KEEP process covers the
core facilitation process and quantification of approximately 50 policy
recommendations. Changes in the number of meetings, number of policy
options, or type of analysis may reduce or expand the level of budget
support needed.”
As you can see, no budget numbers there for the public to easily access (as is the case in all states where CCS works).
But take a look at this version (PDF) of the document that I obtained via a public records request from the governor’s office. Voila — budget numbers
(PDF single page) appear! And CCS will get nearly $554,000 out of the
deal, thanks to their global warming alarmist sugar daddies.
Budget and foundation information for these CCS-controlled climate commissions in various states (close to 20) has been hard to come by, and it’s for one simple reason: CCS and the states try to hide it from the public.
Cross-posted at Cooler Heads.
