As
Citigroup Brags At UN About
Renewables Inner City Press Asks
of Dakota Access Pipeline
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video
UNITED NATIONS,
June 4 – When Citigroup
managing director Michael
Eckhart appeared at the UN on
June 4, it was to talk about
renewable energy with the UN
Environment Program. Inner
City Press asked Eckhart about
Citigroup's role in the Dakota
Access Pipeline.
He paused and
admitted it was a lender, than
said that the outcry against
the pipeline, on indigenous
human rights and other issues,
was entirely unexpected. He
said they had not protested
early enough. Video here.
But what about free prior
informed CONSENT? Is silence
consent? Or, as is too often
the case, is the UN a place of
hypocrisy?
As Inner City
Press has shown, UNEP paid
money to Volvo Ocean Races,
and appears to have engaged in
pay-for-prize with MoBikes.
Inner City Press also asked
about the UN bribery scandal
in which China Energy Fund
Committee - oil money - bribed
UN President of the General
Assembly Sam Kutesa, but CEFC
remains in special
consultative status with UN
ECOSOC. Video here.
We'll have more on this - and
on Citigroup. Watch this site.
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