Enbridge, Bank of America CEOs Targeted for Extreme Energy Impacts

Enbridge, Bank of America CEOs Targeted for Extreme Energy Impacts | Common Dreams

Published on Friday, May 11, 2012 by CorpWatch

by Pratap Chatterjee

War has been declared on Enbridge, a Canadian oil company, by a chief from the Nadleh Whut'en in British Columbia. Chief Martin Louie was attending the company annual general meeting in Toronto where he spoke out Wednesday against the environmental impact of the company's tar sands operations.Chief Martin Louie of Nadleh Whut'en arrives at the Enbridge Inc. annual general meeting for shareholders in Toronto. (REUTERS/Mark Blinch)
"How far are they willing to go to kill off the human beings of this country? Enbridge and the government are going to go on fighting us," said Louie. "The war is on."
Some 700 miles directly south of the Enbridge meeting, on the very same day, Bob Kincaid of Coal River Mountain Watch leveled similar charges against Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America at their annual general meeting in Charlotte North Carolina, for the impact of mountaintop removal mining.
"You are part of the poisoning of Appalachia and so is every one of your directors and so is every one of your shareholders," Kincaid said. "You are part of the destruction of an entire region of the country."
These two new and unconventional fossil fuel sources -tar sands and mountain top coal together with shale rock -  have been dubbed "extreme energy" sources by Professor Michael Klare of Hampshire College, to signify the extraordinary and expensive technology needed to extract energy from them. The rush to exploit these source - from rural North Dakota (see "North Dakota Shale Boom Displaces Tribal Residents") to the deserts of South Africa (see "Fracking South Africa") that has sparked angry protests because of the devastating environmental consequences.