[Allan_L (Allan)]

Publication: Sydney Morning Herald (p1, Fri 06 Nov 2009)
Big greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws at home and slow progress on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen, a global investigation reveals. In Australia, 20 companies who have already won the most concessions from the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme employ 28 lobbying firms with well over 100 staff, many of them former politicians, political advisers or government officials.

I hope this does not offend anyone...
But as I said elsewhere today, I think it is good for the general public to be aware that this is happening.

But it is a media extract so that may effect its own credibility, for some.