(5) Hands on the dunes saying No Gas @ JPP

(5) Hands on the dunes saying No Gas @ JPP: Hands on the dunes saying No Gas @ JPP
messages of support written on paper hands sent in from around the world saying no gas at JPP

Court to hear oil rig workers paid $3 an hour - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Court to hear oil rig workers paid $3 an hour - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):
The Federal Court will today hear allegations that foreign workers were paid less than $3 an hour to work on oil rigs operated by Woodside Petroleum off Western Australia.

The Fair Work Ombudsman alleges Hong Kong-based company Pocomwell Limited hired the four Filipino men, who were made available to the rigs by a WA oil and gas consultant.

Documents tendered to the court claim the four men worked as painters on Woodside rigs on the North West Shelf off northern WA from July 2009 until early 2011.

It says they were paid $US900 a month for working 12 hours a day, seven days a week - a rate of less than $3 an hour.

In its case before the Federal Court in Perth today, the Fair Work Ombudsman will allege the companies failed to pay the national minimum wage, allowances and overtime.

The Ombudsman is seeking tens of thousands of dollars in back pay for each man and fines against the companies that hired and supplied the workers

Country is Calling

Country is Calling: Country is Calling
Updated 8 hours ago · Taken at Walmadan Tent Embassy (James Price Point)
People from all over Australia and the world sent a strong message today in support of the No Gas Campaign. Hundreds of cut-out papers hands with personal messages were places on the dunes of Walmadan. A big thank you goes to Rodney Augustine and Lorna Kelly who organised this event and to Phillip Roe for welcoming everyone to his country. A smoking ceremony was held to cleanse and vitalise everyone.

Many Hands, Many Hearts Say NO GAS at Walmadan JPP - YouTube

Many Hands, Many Hearts Say NO GAS at Walmadan JPP - YouTube

The Battle lines are drawn... Woodside and their JV Partners plan to bulldoze Ancient Indigenous Graves in the Dunes at Walmadan, James Price Point. People around the world were asked to send to Broome a cut out hand, with a NO GAS message. They will be placed on country Sunday 7th April, which will carry their no Gas spirits on country to protect those who rest there.
TIME TO MAKE A STAND - WE DO NOT WANT TO BE A NATION THAT DESTROYS ITS OWN HERITAGE!

Traditional Owners outraged by Browse LNG works State Government deadline | The Stringer

Traditional Owners outraged by Browse LNG works State Government deadline | The Stringer: Woodside does state again and again that they are working with various Traditional Owners to manage the access and to minimise any damage. However Goolarabooloo Elders Joseph and Phillip Roe and Richard Hunter have questioned the cultural authority of the Elders the Government and Woodside are working with.

In a recent letter, RDL has written that it needs to dismantle signage and bollards so that Woodside can gain access to the dunes for drilling if they are not removed by April 6th. This has upset the Roes and Mr Hunter.

They said that the purpose of this infrastructure, installed in 2002 by the Goolarabooloo, is to protect ecologically and culturally sensitive sites along the Lurujarri Heritage Trail from inappropriate vehicle access and the growing impact of tourism. The infrastructure was funded primarily by the State and Federal Government bodies Coast West and Coast Care, with active support from the Shire of Broome, Department of Conservation and Land Management and the then Department of Land Administration.

The Goolarabooloo have vowed to fight this threat, with the support of the wider Broome community.

Browse | Kimberley | James Price Point | Woodside | camp

Browse | Kimberley | James Price Point | Woodside | camp:
The oil and gas giant is sticking to its June schedule for a decision on building the onshore gas processing plant near Broome, with Premier Colin Barnett saying earlier this week that any delays could set the project back many years.

Meanwhile, Goolarabooloo Traditional Owners in the area have voiced concerns after the state's Department of Regional Development and Lands requested the removal of signs and bollards near a sensitive dune system.



The owners said they had been told the signs would be removed by the RDL if they were not taken down by tomorrow. The fear is that this clears the way for Woodside to begin work.

"After all our work trying to protect this area, jumping bureaucratic hoops, RDL are trying to barge through so that Woodside can get access to desecrate our country. For what? There is no final investment decision on this project and everyone wants to float the gas," Senior Law Boss Phillip Roe said.

AMAZON WATCH » We Beat Chevron, but the Fight for Real Justice Continues

AMAZON WATCH » We Beat Chevron, but the Fight for Real Justice Continues:
At one point or another every social justice activist wakes up wondering if we stand a chance against the massive forces acting against us. This week, my faith in justice was given a boost when Amazon Watch won a major victory in the face of Chevron's massive legal efforts against us. In U.S. Federal Court on Wednesday, Chevron's efforts to significantly disrupt our work and threaten our ability to campaign against their reprehensible actions in Ecuador were entirely quashed.

BARNETT'S GAS HOPES ALL AT SEA

West Australian 5/4/2013
By Andrew Probyn, Federal Political Editor

James Price Point looms as Colin Barnett's political pinch point.

At some stage in the days and weeks ahead, the Premier, an economist, will be forced to acknowledge that not even his substantial political skills can bend commercial fundamentals.

Mr Barnett's preference for a giant onshore gas hub at James Price Point -- a site picked by the Premier and one that was not among the 11 potential sites identified by the Northern Development Taskforce 
-- is not going to happen.

"We are not talking about Captain Pugwash's barge with a gas pump on it," one senior source said. "We are talking about the largest floating structures supported by the biggest companies on the face of the earth. It's a global resources game-changer and it's the future."

Mr Barnett was burnt by the way he championed the Oakajee Port project when private investors found it failed to stack up financially. James Price Point will tell us whether the Premier has learnt this lesson.

Floating liquefied natural gas is a concept that seemed abstract less than a decade ago but is now a firm reality.

Under pressure: Environmentalists have protested against a gas hub at James Price Point, but technological changes make the site's use unlikely.

Woodside to join JPP case as respondent - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Woodside to join JPP case as respondent - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

Woodside Petroleum has been ordered by the Supreme Court to join a case affecting its proposed LNG hub in the Kimberley.

WA chief justice Wayne Martin today instructed the oil and gas producer to join the case being brought by the Wilderness Society and traditional land owner Richard Hunter.

They are seeking to have the court overturn a report from the Environmental Protection Authority and subsequent decisions by former Environment Minister Bill Marmion which led to the project being approved to be built at James Price Point.

The court's decision means Woodside will now join the case as a third respondent, alongside the EPA and Mr Marmion.

The court is yet to set a hearing date.

Singing Country in the Song Cycle

One of the major responsibilities of the Kimberley Law Bosses is to ensure that Traditional Culture – The Law – is passed down to successive generations.

The Elders are Custodians of a living history, Traditional knowledge of the origin and function of things, and stories and skills that derive from centuries of experience in the area.  “This body of cultural knowledge is known as “Bugarigaara,” the Dreaming. It is perpetuated within the Song Cycle” which recounts the creative journeys of the ancestral beings who made the land and its people.

The Song Cycle is an oral heritage map. Its songs contain codes of behaviour fundamental to sustaining the balance and well-being of the land and its people. “The people talk about the Song Men being given the songs by the Country itself.

The Song Cycle is made up of Law Grounds and seasonal camping places, along a connected route between water places.  These grounds and sites promote abundance – for humans, turtles, birds, fish and animals.
The layout of the land is encoded in the songs. A person who knows the songs can travel through the country and stay in a sustaining relationship with it. This preserved memory of the lay of the land, and its history, has been sung for centuries at ceremony time, even by lawmen in distant places who have never made the physical journey along the song line.

The Song Cycle on the coast of the Dampier Peninsula has its birthplace north of One Arm Point, from whence it travels to the south of La Grange, the exit place where that creative process finished. Its sites connect, in a continuous linear system ranging between 50 and 100kms in width, from west in the ocean to east on the land. This greater Song Cycle looks after and protects other (east-heading) creation Songlines that move from the west through Uluru and across to the east coast – Sunrise country.

Minyirr jukun (Dampier Peninsula) is one of the beginning birth places for the journey of “Naji’ beings who, it is believed, came from the ocean of space and travelled across the country, gradually summoning up landforms, people, animals – the whole spectrum of creation and the system to preserve it, – through first singing out the sound vibration of names, around which their forms gathered. (Aboriginal people do not believe their forebears migrated from elsewhere, but came from this land itself; the people, the land and all its forms simultaneously stemming from the same life-giving force and sharing the same essential energy vibration.)

Within this Country, one of the creator beings is spoken of as “Marella,” whose ancient footprints and other feather traces remain in the reef that stretches between Minyirr (Broome) and Dugul (Flat Rock, north of Walmadan.)  The emu form of Marella persists in the shape of the black abyss of the Milky Way, in the night sky. Sites where three-toed prints occur correlate with the course of Marella’s journey, as narrated in the Song Cycle.  The archaeologists, however, speak of a dinosaur, an upright walking lizard.
Law-Grounds are generally located close to significant vegetation, the “mamara” (‘spirit trees’) that have particular ceremonial functions.

“Murrurru” are rock formations that have strong spiritual value. They are mainly dangerous places that need to be respected and avoided – not public places, due to their power.

The following extract derives from a greater piece written by Jeanné Browne, in collaboration with Frans Hooglandt and Goolarabooloo Law Boss, Joseph Roe, and is included in the publication, ‘Kimberley at the Crossroads’, compiled by Murray Wilcox QC, for Save the Kimberley, 2010.

Richard Hunter

The seasonal camping places are generally governed by water presence, food sources and insect presence throughout the year.

A “Jila” offers permanent, “living” water:  Each “buru,” or territory, has its “Yunguru,” the spirit that resides in the water places, who is “familiar with the smell” of his people. Traditional people from one place tend to be reluctant to move into another people’s area, unless accompanied by its countrymen, who can introduce them and facilitate their safe passing.

Singing the Country is part of an ongoing relationship. Country must be sung regularly to revive and replenish it. It must also be cool burnt seasonally, to make easier travel and green shoots to feed traditionally hunted animals. Water holes must be kept open.

Within the Dampier Peninsula, the Song Cycle system unites all the west coast saltwater people: the Jawi, Bardi, Nyulnyul, Nimanburru, Warrwa, Jabirr Jabbirr, Ngumbarl, Jukun, Yawuru and Karajarri.  The boundaries of their territories (‘burus,’) and associated languages and Law, were established in Bugarigaara, at the beginning of time.

The responsibility for maintaining the Song Cycle is shared by the Law Bosses of all these clans.  Collectively, they look after the whole Song Cycle, working together. If one area is destroyed, the whole is affected.  However the Law Bosses for each buru have primary responsibility for it.

Other Bosses cannot override or speak for another’s buru, unless that buru’s Law Bosses jeopardise the greater Song Cycle system.

Goolarabooloo calls for protection of cultural sites | The Stringer

Goolarabooloo calls for protection of cultural sites | The Stringer:
Woodside is poised to resume work this year in areas of monsoon vine thickets which are part of the sacred Songcycle and contain middens, heritage sites and burial grounds. Mr Roe said this is despite the fact that the WA EPA recommended the area be protected from disturbance in 1991 and the WA Museum’s Department of Aboriginal sites recommending the area be protected because of its cultural significance in 1989.

“Woodside, Shell and BP will be responsible for destroying our environment, our heritage and burial grounds if they start drilling and digging for their exploratory works in the monsoon vine thickets,” said Phillip Roe.

Woodside spokespeople have said that they will make every endeavour to protect acknowledged cultural sites and that they are working closely with Traditional Owners.

But Mr Roe disagrees.

“This is sacrilege to us and we need the Federal Government to intervene urgently because the State has completely failed to protect our cultural and religious rights.”

Legal action commences on EPA’s approval for James Price Point Gas hub | The Stringer

Legal action commences on EPA’s approval for James Price Point Gas hub | The Stringer:

“If the Supreme Court agrees that the EPA has acted unlawfully, the James Price Point approvals should be overturned and the assessment process recommenced,” said Ms Nore.

The WA Supreme Court will begin listening to all the parties from tomorrow.

Mr Hunter and The Wilderness Society launched the action arguing that there was no natural justice anywhere along the line. The processes are so flawed that four members of the five member panel had to stand aside – but they waited till the last minute.

EnergyNewsBulletin.net + Shell selling up in Geelong

EnergyNewsBulletin.net + Shell selling up in Geelong: Thursday, 4 April 2013

SHELL has confirmed it is putting its Geelong refinery on the market, putting about 470 jobs at risk and further highlighting the weakness of Australian refinery operations.

Shell Geelong Refinery
It told media this morning that it would be selling the 120,000 barrel per day refinery to concentrate on larger-scale refining operations, such as the Pulau Bukom refinery in Singapore.

Smoke across Karratha sky line caused by flaring - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Smoke across Karratha sky line caused by flaring - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Woodside says a technical issue at its gas plant on the Burrup Peninsula caused a trail of dark smoke to billow across Karratha's sky line yesterday afternoon.



A spokeswoman for the oil and gas giant confirmed the issue was triggered in the LNG Train One at the Karratha Gas Plant.

It led to an increase in flaring and some dark smoke coming from the plant.

Woodside says flaring is an essential process for safe operations of a gas plant and is normal industry practice.

Flaring release benzeen, CO2 and other polluting toxins. We don't need this to contribute to worse climate change after the summer from hell we've just experienced!

Hosting the burden of a ‘shadow population’. DAP

For those who don’t know what DAPs are, about 18 months ago the Barnett government introduced highly controversial and undemocratic new planning laws called Development Assessment Panels (DAPs).   Under this new law if developments proposals are over $3M developers can request a state DAP decision by a panel of five consisting of 2 from the local council and 3  state appointed "experts", rather than go through the comparatively transparent local government planning process.  Any development over $7M now automatically goes to a DAP. 

Once the process has gone through the initial "transparent" stages and the community has had its chance to have its say, the process goes behind closed doors.  Then only the developer has the right to appeal on decisions which the panel has reached.  In some cases the plans have been completely changed, for example, they have approved respective approvals for illegal works; they have gone from a residential to a commercial development or horticultural to FIFO worker’s accommodation. 

Yesterday,  (April 3rd)  Angela Hamersley's Supreme Court Case was  heard concerning the proposed Catherine Street Development in Subiaco.  The Catherine Street Development has been approved by a DAP but it is being challenged in court, because many believe the RAR (Responsible Authority Report), which is supposed to consider all aspects of the site and surrounding residents etc., has many flaws.  This is a very significant case because it contests the highly controversial new DAP planning process, which is seen as a threat to the environment and heritage sites as it favours developers wishes over community.

WA is in for a rocky road. Having witnessed DAP and their considerable powers over local communities, residents need to be aware and alarmed if they value their local input into their communities. Soon local government will be a servant of state governments as opposed to servants to their local residents/ and rate payers. 

Today, Thursday 4 April 2013 commencing at 2.30pm in the Shire of Broome Council Chambers, the Kimberley Joint Development Assessment Panel (JDAP ) will meet to determine an application by Planning Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd behalf of Decmil Group Ltd in partnership with Nyimarr Ltd. They are seeking planning approval to develop an 857 person temporary Transient Workers’ Accommodation on Lot 283 Broome Road Roebuck. 

Whether built around agriculture or tourism, regional towns in Australia have a strong sense of identity and community. A large influx of non-resident workers is a permanent disruption to the social fabric and feeling of a town and this ‘shadow population’ has a serious and negative impact on the safety, image and amenity of communities. Prioritising quick profits over long-term sustainability.

The equating of FIFO with social instability is generating significant discord in communities as well as making them less desirable as a residential option. Communities with significant FIFO populations are finding themselves wanting to maintain the culture of their towns. 

In the light of the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia tabled  report on the inquiry into the use of ‘fly-in, fly-out’ (FIFO) workforce practices in regional Australia entitled Cancer of the bush or salvation for our cities? Fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in Regional Australia. You would have thought that this would be taken into account in the Responsible Authority Report.  

The disturbing stories shared with this Committee of local residents being pushed into FIFO/DIDO work, children’s sporting teams being disbanded due to the lack of available volunteers, doctor’s surgeries and hospitals being unable to service local residents and young women being afraid to walk the street of their home towns because of the number of young intoxicated men on the streets.

The primary concern about the use of FIFO operations is their impact on established communities and the perceived rejection of towns and their way of life in favour of high wages and temporary camp living environments.

"The influx of male workers skews the population make-up. When you add long shifts, extended periods away from home, little or no structured recreation and varying work camp conditions, it adds up to a workplace culture that incubates alcohol abuse."

Professor Carrington said residents in the towns near mines saw their services dry up as providers could not afford to live there and the cost of living went up.

"Residents have a commitment to their community and see themselves as bearing the social costs of mining without sharing the benefits, while FIFO workers, who have no attachment to the place and impose large burdens on the locals' way of life, their services and infrastructure, take most of the economic benefits back home," she said.

The potential social impacts of this project have not been fully considered in the Shire’s Responsible Authority report and therefore will not be considered by the JDAP. To date only an outline management plan has been submitted. 

THE STORY

The Department of Planning made a statement on the 19th January, 2013 stating that the paid chairperson of the Kimberley Development Assessment Panel (DAP)  Mr Kotsoglo resigned last month before taking the job with the company Planning Solutions  .  No conflict of interest has arisen because Mr Kotsoglo had resigned as committee chairman before taking the job with the company. 

Planning Solutions (WA) Pty Ltd was established in April 1998 and Kotsoglo was the founding director of this company. He has been involved in it’s the business while he was sitting on the Assessment Panels. 

The Code of conduct is evidence that the DAP structure is not as transparent or accountable as has been claimed. Panels have a superior probability of producing incidents of conflict of interest at best and corruption at worst, precisely because lack of transparency and accountability of panel members. 

The permanent and known members will also make panels and panelists a target for people wishing to illegally influence the approvals process.  

The makeup of the Development Assessment Panels, with Local Government being a minority member shows a clear and deliberate attempt by the state to remove local decision making from the community and Local Government. Effectively,  locking both out of the development assessment processes and local planning issues.

Obviously an uneven number was required to avoid deadlocks. The issue is not the number of members on a panel, but it’s the ratio. The fact that these DAPs has Local Government as a minority is an outright attack on our democratic rights with community losing its representation.

With the Minister appointing three members and two elected members creates an imbalance and diminishes Local Government decision making. Community interest and the primacy of local Town Planning Schemes are gradually being diminished under the pressure of those with a short term commercial interest and those looking after only the big end of town.

However, the most concerning issue is the fact that when the DAP does sits today on the 4th April 2013 to assess Planning Solution’s application to build a FIFO temporary Workers village, none of the current Kimberley DAP members will be able to claim that they have no conflict of interest because every one of them has a working relationship with Mr Kotsoglo, Mr Planning Solutions himself. The DAP model requires that DAP members operate from an open, impartial and independent position. More concerning is the fact that only David Gray has declared an interest in today’s meeting.

According to Development Assessment Panel Procedures Manual - DAP Members are required to  report any suspected breach of the Code of Conduct, or any misconduct of a DAP member concerning DAP business. 

So when asked from the public gallery at the ,last Shire Council meeting:

 “Has the Broome Shire made a complaint under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2003 (which enables disclosures to be made within defined forms of misconduct within the State public sector, local government and public universities without fear of reprisal)_ directly to the Director General or to the office of the Ombudsman for Western Australia regarding Mr Kotsoglo’s alleged Conflict Of Interest?”

The shire president replied and again stated on the local ABC radio the following morning that  Mr Kotsoglo’s conflict of interest was currently being investigated by Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC). 

As soon as a DAP member receives notice of an application, they should consider whether they face any conflict of interest. Members are encouraged to read relevant sections of the Code of Conduct.

Members are reminded that a failure to disclose a conflict of interest to the DAP Secretariat as soon as possible could constitute a contravention of the Act which carries a penalty of $5000. Reference: s266 of the Act. Impartiality interest means an interest that could, or could reasonably be perceived to, adversely affect the impartiality of a member with such an interest and includes an interest arising from kinship, friendship, partnership, or membership of an association, that is connected to a development application that is before the relevant DAP or which the member is aware may come before that DAP in future.

So here we go again today. We will witness yet another autocratic process that eradicates community values and silence our voice in planning. Totally strangers coming into town to approve their ex chairperson’s planning application to build a FIFO village. I smell a rat.  

Barnett hits back over Browse - The West Australian

Barnett hits back over Browse - The West Australian:

Premier Colin Barnett has hit back at both sides of Federal politics over their support for floating offshore gas processing, arguing that development of the giant Browse gas field is about more than ensuring riches flow to Canberra.

It was the first time Barnet argued that a land-backed Browse hub would deliver sequential development benefits in other areas including the gas-rich Carnarvon basin

Browse project could face 10-year delay

Browse project could face 10-year delay:

"I will be doing all I can to change the fundamentals of the project so it does work, and there are things that can be done."

Mr Barnett's comments come in spite of joint venture partner Shell's preference for a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation.

Some analysts say the controversial proposal to build a gas plant at James Price Point, near Broome, is not economically viable due to escalating costs and challenges securing labour, prompting speculation that the partners could opt for a floating LNG option.

Some expect Woodside's final investment decision on Browse to be delayed by at least another year, meaning state government approvals for the project will lapse.

Mr Barnett confirmed that he held talks with Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman last week, reiterating his stance on the Kimberley gas project about it providing great economic and social benefits to the state.

"Peter and I had a discussion about a week ago and those discussions continue," Mr Barnett said.

Action Alert: 24 hours to have your say on federal oversight of water impacts of coal and CSG - CSG Free Northern Rivers

Action Alert: 24 hours to have your say on federal oversight of water impacts of coal and CSG - CSG Free Northern Rivers: Action Alert: 24 hours to have your say on federal oversight of water impacts of coal and CSG
Submissions to Senate Inquiry into the federal Government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2013 [Provisions]

The Federal Government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2013 to provide Federal oversight of the impacts of coal and coal seam gas mining on water resources has been referred to a Senate Inquiry. More information about the Senate inquiry can be found here.

Barnett not a happy man.

Anonymous April 3, 2013 at 9:50 AM

Barnett on Hutchinson (720 ABC) this morning very upset about FLNG.

Q. When will you say I cant win this.

A. Never.

Barnett wants to know where are all the Australians to stand up for Australia?
Why am I the only voice?

Why is it in Australia the media barracks for these things.FLNG.Why do they keep saying JPP is going to fall over?
Why?

Why is public opinion and the media against it?

"I feel pretty lonely in that..."

HE WAS FIRED UP AND REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS "THE LONE VOICE".

Q. What do you say if the JV partners say its uneconomic?

A. Australian people own the gas.

(THE LONE VOICE AND ONLY THE LONE VOICE WILL SAY WHERE IT IS PROCESSED)

Hutchinson kept referring to Barnett as Hugo Chavez,a nationalist.
Barnett seemed to like it!

BUT when he mentioned he had spoken to Coleman a week ago his voice and bluster dropped,caught in his own trap he told his usual porkies.

Presumably the meeting did not go well for him.

Q. What will you do if the partners decide on FLNG?

A. I will see to it the project is delayed by 5 - 10 years and it is redone in a different form and processed onshore....

After Barnett left,and after a John Lee Hooker song,"Boom Boom",Hutch said,"Colin Barnett is so adamant that the Browse gas be processed onshore that I wouldn't mind betting the transcript of this mornings interview is sitting somewhere on some important Woodside persons desk".
NOTE : I cant do shorthand so this was really just my best effort as best I could.
But accurate as so far as the general drift is concerned.

Caring for our Country - Funding - Sustainable Environment - Target Area Grants

This is the iorary and the 

Caring for our Country - Funding - Sustainable Environment - Target Area Grants: Target Area Grants
Overview Target Areas How to apply FAQs

Caring for our Country Target Area Grants are the open call funding component of the Sustainable Environment stream of the new Caring for our Country program.

Target Area Grants will provide funding of between $50 000 and $2 million for projects to maintain ecosystem services, protect our conservation estate, and enhance the capacity of Indigenous communities to conserve and protect natural resources within the Kimberley and five other locations within Australia:

Caring for Country, a federal government program that is about Caring For Country, but what the Goolarabooloo and the Broome Community have had to face by doing just that

We as a community have been arrested, issued move on notices out of country, initiated, invaded by hundreds of police and corporate security thugs, push and pulled, lied to, ignored, dismissed and have generally been roughshod by state government department public servant lackeys under orders from their corporate masters.All, because WE CARE. 

This grant funding is drenched in hypocrisy and is such an insult to the people who do really Care for Country.