[Grovenet] A heckuva job! ! ! ! ! !

[Steven]

Just a golden haired garden rake? Second post on this in 5 minutes.
I thought Gold was a green investment. It doesn't pollute.

Bob Browning wrote:
> Supposedly the latest:
>
>> International Herald Tribune <http://www.iht.com>
>> Mining giant Barrick out of Al Gore event in Chile on global warming
>>
>> The Associated Press
>> Friday, April 13, 2007
>>
>> *SANTIAGO, Chile:* A global warming seminar next month featuring Al 
>> Gore and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will not include 
>> Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold among its sponsors, company 
>> officials and the former U.S. vice president's office said Friday.
>>
>> Chilean politicians and environmental groups had criticized Barrick's 
>> planned co-sponsorship of the "Global Warming and Climate Change" 
>> opening May 11 in the capital of Santiago, saying the company has a 
>> poor environmental record.
>>
>> Accounts differed on how the decision was made to remove Barrick.
>>
>> "It is policy for our office to clear all sponsors of Mr. Gore's 
>> events" based on criteria including environmental policies, Gore 
>> spokeswoman Kalee Krieder said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. 
>> "Unfortunately, our office was never notified by the sponsor that 
>> they wished to add Barrick Gold as a co-sponsor and therefore it did 
>> not go through the normal vetting process.
>>
>> "When our office discovered that Barrick Gold was added ... we asked 
>> that they be removed," Krieder added. "Our understanding was that 
>> this request was executed on Wednesday."
>>
>> But Barrick spokesman Vince Borg said the company decided to step 
>> aside to avoid "becoming a distraction for very useful discussions on 
>> important matters" at the conference.
>>
>> The mining company was targeted by environmental groups last year 
>> over a multimillion-dollar (euro) gold mining project in northern 
>> Chile. The project was ultimately approved, though only after Barrick 
>> dropped plans to remove a glacier sitting on top of gold deposits.
>>
>> Chilean Socialist Sen. Alejandro Navarro had said the company's 
>> association "would contaminate" the visit of Gore, who recently won 
>> an Oscar for his global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
>>
>> Some US$50,000 (€37,00) Barrick had earmarked for the seminar will be 
>> redirected to universities and non-governmental organizations for 
>> environmental research, Borg said by telephone from company 
>> headquarters in Toronto.
>>
> bob "always checking" browning
>
> Steven wrote:
>> Gore is raking in a $200k speaking fee at an upcoming 
>> conference in Santiago on his favorite current topic.<snip> 
>
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