Sierra Club Chief Digs a Deeper Hole on Gas Donations

Submitted by Anonymous on February 7, 2012 - 9:10am

Sierra Club president Michael Brune said last week that he stopped his organization's acceptance of donations from a gas-drilling company when he found out about them.

Turns out that his chronology might be off.

"In 2010, soon after I became the organization's executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country's largest natural gas companies," Brune wrote in his "Coming Clean" blog.

But in an email dated May 11, 2011, Brune wrote:

"I do want to be clear about one thing: we do not receive any money from Aubrey McClendon, nor his company Chesapeake. For that matter, we do not receive any contributions from the natural gas industry.

"Hopefully this will alleviate some concerns."

Actually, no. It just fuels the fire.

Click here for Sunshine State News' story on the ties between the Sierra Club and Chesapeake.

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