Al Gore Teaming Up With Dow Chemicals For Life Earth Events

This is just fantastic!

Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm

Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world's worst pollution disasters.

Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking pesticides factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is sponsoring Life Earth events in 150 cities today. The event aims to raise money for clean water programmes. Research by environmental organisations has found dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals in rivers, lakes and other water supplies close to several other factories owned by Dow and its subsidiaries in countries including the United States, Brazil and South Africa.

Dow's factories at its global headquarters in Midland, Michigan, have been accused of contaminating the region, including the Tittabawassee River floodplains, with high levels of dioxin – one of the "dirty dozen" most dangerous chemicals. In 2007, the highest level of dioxin contamination ever measured by the US Environmental Protection Agency was found in the Michigan Saginaw River. Residents are advised to avoid contact with river sediments and not to eat locally caught fish.

Gotta love the hypocrisy of little Al. Wonder if he'll get a new personal jet out of this deal?

Obviously, Dow Chemical is living by the axiom "Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer."

As for Al Gore's reasoning, he's a politician, and like whores, politicians will take many from anybody.

Uh, maybe for this reason?:

The event aims to raise money for clean water programmes.

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Or maybe for this reason:

Get the suckers to donate money to clean up the mess that DOW have made, so they won't have to spend their own money doing so.

As a bonus, they'll get their pal Al Gore to front it, for a fee of course, to make it look like they actually give a damn!