David Rose exposes another apparently corrupt green politician:
Tory peer in £600,000 conflict of interest: Climate Change chief John Gummer faces calls to quit over payments from ‘green businesses’ to his family firm…
- Conservative peer’s family-run consultancy been paid huge sums by businesses
- MPs say Mr Gummer should have declared the payments – but he never has
- He last night denied conflict of interest and said complied with disclosure rules
Tory peer John Selwyn Gummer’s private company has been paid more than £600,000 ($785,458 USD) from ‘green’ businesses that stand to make millions from his advice to Ministers.
The Conservative grandee heads the Government’s powerful Climate Change Committee that vigorously supports pumping billions of pounds in public subsidies into firms developing environmentally friendly technology.
Yet a Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered that his family-run consultancy has been paid huge sums by businesses that have cashed in on those lucrative taxpayer-funded handouts.
MPs say Gummer should have declared the payments – but he never has.
Last night, he vehemently denied any conflict of interest and insisted he had fully complied with disclosure rules.
He admitted his company received the payments, but insisted the work it undertook did not involve climate change issues.
Explosive documents leaked to this newspaper reveal that Sancroft International has been paid by at least nine businesses and campaign groups involved in projects to cut greenhouse gases.
That is the main aim of the committee 79-year-old Gummer leads – although policies it champions have been criticised for forcing up taxes and household energy bills.
Among the dossier’s contents, we can reveal that:
- Engineering giant Johnson Matthey, which makes batteries for electric cars, paid Gummer’s firm nearly £300,000 over five years before he personally urged the Government to speed up plans to make all new cars on Britain’s roads battery-powered;
- Venture capitalists Temporis Capital – whose profits from windfarms and solar energy projects are bolstered by huge Government subsidies – paid the company £50,000 between 2012 and 2017;
- Controversial green energy producer Drax, which gets £700 million a year in Government subsidies, paid Sancroft £15,500 while the Climate Change Committee was writing a report on its activities.
Last night Gummer, who was a Tory MP for 40 years before becoming Lord Deben in 2010, was facing calls to resign over what appear to be ‘colossal’ and ‘scandalous’ conflicts of interest exposed by this newspaper.
Much, much, more at The Mail on Sunday
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
One doesn’t have to see it that negative.
Maybe he has paid the money into an account that will be freely accessible after the world collapsed.
Which will prove money doesn’t help against CAGW.
The sad thing is that announcements and policy advice from this committee has caused increases in energy prices, a slump in automobile production due it wanting to phase out diesels and petrol vehicles which had led to such a drop in sales that jaguar rover are downsizing and, just today, Nissan have announced they are not longer planning to build a new car here. It is amazing the damage that apparent conflicts of interest can cause.
Just stand back and understand this has nothing to do with climate, more dangerous forces are at work but human ingenuity makes money out of crisis especially when you have government throwing money at any half baked idea as long as the words GWEEN, sustainable and Eco are liberally spread around in the description and oh there are so many experts and advisers who care SO much about the environment but care much MORE about a flow of easy money into their bank accounts without too many questions asked. All this while they jet and drive to critical climate conferences and nod and show concern as they vie with each other to make more and more alarmist predictions TWENTY TWO THOUSAND of them in Poland all wringing their hands all paid for by the tax payer in multiple countries and the only thing which mattered was when the next conference would be. This is a serious human failing which is normally controlled by reality. There is no reality in the Climate Industrial Complex…they just help themselves to more of our money!
The situation regarding the CCC has been apparent for several years. Yeo, ho, and a bottle of Gummer. We need more journalists to report what is going on . 1935-39 Germany all over again. Billions wasted in search of the ‘perfect climate’ before ‘MM Global Warming’ was invented. This time its all about money, politicians are the brown shirts.
In February 2012, the U.S. Congress passed H.R. 5736—The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which gave the media the legal authority to spread government lies:
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012—Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government’s policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media……..
Is catastrophic climate change covered in the Smith-Mundi Modernization Act?
“The preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government’s policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media”
They’ve had the Voice Of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for decades. I still have a rather faded RFE/RL QSL verification card, dating back to when they used to play Western rock music to the former Soviet republics on Sundays…
Just this morning RT did an interview on Jimmy Dore on the subject of the lies being told by certain media.
“insisted the work it undertook did not involve climate change issues.”
Checking the Sancroft International website, under ‘Our advisors’:
“As founder and owner of Climate Coach International, LLC, Bryan helps organizations understand climate-related risks and opportunities and then design and implement practical (and cost-effective) climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.”
The pronouncements by Lord Debden have had such a profound effect on the global warming discussion since he was appointed chairman of the government’s Climate Change Committee, that any historical reports that he passed to the government and upon which the government made important decisions should be thoroughly investigated to establish on what grounds the reports were drawn up. Also, those parliamentarians, in addition to Lord Debden who have been associated with the Climate change fiasco over the years such as Huhne and Yeo, should also be investigated to see whether their income over the years of their involvement was supplemented with any contributions from the climate change industry. Finally, all companies that have received government contracts as a direct result of the Climate Change Committee’s recommendations should be made to report undue payments made to government employees, and if they refuse, they should be investigated.