A key part of the Democratic Party’s base is hitting former Vice President Joe Biden for his past support for fossil fuels as President Donald Trump continues pounding him over his son’s business ties with a Ukrainian natural gas company.
Biden’s son’s role at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings is playing a role in a Democratic-lead impeachment inquiry into Trump, who said in September that he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Biden for pressuring the country into firing a prosecutor who was reportedly looking into Hunter Biden’s employer.
Environmental groups are connecting Hunter Biden’s ties with his father, who previously expressed support for natural gas exploration in Ukraine.
“It’s not just Hunter — it’s Vice President Biden’s multitude of connections to energy experts who continue to push the false narrative that there’s a place for gas in a clean energy future,” a campaigner for Oil Change U.S., Collin Rees, told The Washington Post Tuesday.
Rees’s organization is pressuring 2020 presidential contenders to decline money from fossil fuel executives.
Biden traveled to Ukraine in 2014 to announce a U.S. program designed to gradually eliminate the country’s reliance on Russian gas by increasing its own gas production.
“Imagine where you’d be today if you were able to tell Russia: ‘Keep your gas,’” the former vice president said at the time.
Activists are raising questions.
“The global peddling of natural gas is a Democratic and a Republican problem,” Karen Orenstein, deputy director of economic policy at Friends of the Earth, told the Post. “Exploitation of natural gas in Ukraine under the guise of so-called ‘national security’ promotes climate pollution in an age of climate emergency.”
Biden, a 2020 presidential contender, is attempting to reform his image, taking up a more combative position against the oil industry as he ramps up his bid for the White House.
Biden announced a $1.7 trillion plan to transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels. He wants to eliminate hydraulic fracturing or fracking, and coal production, institute a carbon tax, place a ban on new fossil fuel permits on public lands, and work for a ban on fossil fuel subsidies.
It might not be enough to stave off other candidates.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, for instance, did not confirm to reporters in September whether he would use Hunter Biden’s past to win political points against the former vice president, who is slumping in national polls.
Sanders famously suggested during a 2015 debate that he would not use former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal against her.
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“Exploitation of natural gas in Ukraine under the guise of so-called ‘national security’ promotes climate pollution in an age of climate emergency.”
Wow, where does one start. Clean burning natural gas is villanized.
CO2 is climate pollution?! Wow. Plant food is bad.
The climate emergency is caused by the sun. We need more sun spots. Let’s create a new world order to get more sun spots.
“Exploitation of natural gas in Ukraine under the guise of so-called ‘national security’ promotes climate pollution in an age of climate emergency.”
Here is another angle.
Instead of Ukraine exploiting their natural resources to gain true independence from Russia, they have to keep it in the ground.
Any wonder that Russia is funding all these eco-wackos. Plays right into their strategies.
Lets look back at Biden’s criminal past as a plagiarist and his long-time practice of fondling the hair of women he does not know who happen to stand in front of him.
Then ask if this is a person who should be investigated if he is or is not involved in some shady dealings he at least had some knowledge of. Isn’t is better to find out now instead of waiting until he’s nominated for public office?
Why don’t Joe Biden set a example by keeping his pie hole closed for a month or more
Apparently Joe Biden’s son was paid $80,000 per month as a Board member to a gas company . Strange considering he had zero experience in the natural gas business apparently .
When the company is investigated Biden brags about stopping payment to the government of Ukraine. Hmm .
Did all Board members get $80,000 per month ? Highly unlikely .
So what was the money for ?
How much was Joe Biden threatening to hold back in order to stop the investigation ?
Did Joe Bidens kid sit on any other Boards in the Ukraine ?
Hello Barr do you need a road map ? Or are we seeing another
sleepy Sessions ? Biden admits his actions on tape yet they go after Trump .
When did Biden’s kid join the Board and when did he leave ?