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Plants Need CO2
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Plants Need CO2 appears to be a front group; one of its directors "is said to own more coal through his various ventures than anyone outside of the U.S. government."
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Website content
According to the Plants Need CO2 website, "Earth and it's inhabitants need more, not less, CO2"; and the group's mission is "to educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2."[1]. Its only named principal is its spokesman, H. Leighton Steward, is "a geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive" who's interested in "helping to educate the general public and the politicians about the tremendous benefits of carbon dioxide (CO2) as it relates to the plant and animal kingdoms and their related ecosystems and habitats, and the general health of humanity".[2]
Domain registration
The plantsneedco2.org domain was originally registered on May 26, 2009; as of its last update (August 25 2009) it shows H. Leighton Steward as the registrant, using a networksolutionsprivateregistration.com email address and the Network Solutions business address.
Earlier, registration information reportedly tied it to Quintana Minerals Corporation, which "provides oil and gas exploration services to the energy sector" and "offers crude oil and natural gas production services."[3]
Directors and backgrounds
The Plants Need CO2 website does not name the group's directors, only spokesman H. Leighton Steward.
According to its corporate Certificate of Formation[4], the group has three directors: Steward, Wyatt Hogan and Corbin Robertson Jr.
- H. Leighton Steward is a director at EOG Resources, an oil and gas company formerly known as Enron Oil and Gas Company, where he earned $617,151 in 2008.[3]
- Wyatt Hogan is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of GP Natural Resource Partners LLC.[5]
- Corbin Robertson Jr. is "said to own more coal through his various ventures than anyone outside of the U.S. government"; he is the grandson and heir of Texas oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, and is president of Quintana Minerals, CEO and chairman of Natural Resource Partners LP, and chairman of Quintana Maritime Ltd. [6]
Contact details
Website: http://plantsneedco2.org/
Phone: none provided
Email address: info AT plantsneedco2.org
Articles and resources
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References
- ↑ Plants Need CO2 (2009). Plants Need CO2. Retrieved on 2009-09-18.
- ↑ Plants Need CO2 (2009). About Plants Need CO2 - CO2 is Green & Green is Good. Retrieved on 2009-09-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Miles Grant, "Big Oil creates phony climate denial site, lies about it", Grist, September 4, 2009.
- ↑ Filing #801134935, filed June 15 2009 with the Texas Secretary of State
- ↑ Forbes (2009). Wyatt L. Hogan Profile. Forbes. Retrieved on 2009-09-18.
- ↑ Mary Ann Azevedo, "Energy fund drills in new 'direction'", Houston Business Journal, September 7, 2007.
External resources
External articles
- Steven J. Mufson, "New Groups Revive the Debate Over Causes of Climate Change", Washington Post, September 25, 2009.
