WP: (US climate negotiator's) Work Is Questioned (he's oil industry pal)

Climate Official's Work Is Questioned
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 5, 2005; Page A19


Environmentalists are unhappy with the job the lead U.S. climate negotiator, Harlan Watson, has been doing in the ongoing Montreal talks on how to combat global warming.

Watson has spent the past week in Montreal touting the administration's record on climate change. He said there is no reason the United States and other countries that oppose mandatory carbon dioxide limits should have to talk about what should be done once the Kyoto Protocol, which aims to cut global greenhouse gases by 7 percent by 2012, expires.

Watson's position and the environmentalists' reaction should hardly be surprising -- considering his apparent popularity with the oil industry.

A Feb. 6, 2001, fax sent to the White House by oil giant Exxon Mobil proposed involving Watson more closely in international climate negotiations.

The document -- which Exxon Mobil spokesman Russ Roberts said was sent by the company but not written by any of its employees -- suggested asking House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to make Watson, who at the time worked for the House Science Committee -- "available to work with the team" of Americans attending international climate change meetings....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/04/AR2005120400891.html

"The document, which Exxon Mobil spokesman Russ Roberts said was sent by the company but not written by any of its employees ..."

Are they just letting people in off the street to use their computers, and send out documents in their name? :wtf:

They have infested our government likes rats, nibbling at the public cheese.