{"id":1553,"date":"2014-04-02T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2020-07-31T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:04:04","slug":"leaving-out-a-vital-detail-about-the-western-fuels-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"Leaving out a Vital Detail about the Western Fuels Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ross Gelbspan’s claim about statements in Western Fuels’ annual report – which are not there<\/a> – is a major problem. His other consistent description\u00a0about that organization, which leaves out a vital detail, is an additional problem.<\/p>\n

Even without putting his name into an internet search, plenty of results show of a description of Western Fuels<\/a> that is directly attributable to him, with a particular emphasis on the words “a $400-million coal consortium<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

One hyphenated word is always missing from that description:\u00a0 “non-profit<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

As in what is clearly said currently at their home page<\/a> right under their map, and as in what was said at the earliest available archive page<\/a>, which dates from 1997:<\/p>\n

Western Fuels Association, Inc., is a not-for-profit cooperative<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rummage through internet searches for them described as “not-for-profit<\/a>” or “non-profit<\/a>\u201d, and the results turn up one enviro-activist wiki page where that apparently slipped by them, and Greenpeace archive scans of pages that were only for Greenpeace’s own internal use.<\/p>\n

Certainly, it is fair to say a big problem arises concerning the portrayal of Western Fuels as a sinister greedy fossil fuel organization out to protect its bottom line, if astute members of the public compares Western Fuels’ product handling services and asset holdings to what other like-minded organizations might have in offering essentially the same services over a large region\u2026.. for example, non-profit food growing & distribution cooperatives.<\/p>\n

It’s also fair to say that when Gelbspan wrote about<\/a> Western Fuels in 1997 as a “$400 million coal giant<\/em>\u201d, noting details from their 1994 annual report, the same big problem was staring him in the face considering WFA’s 1994 report disclosed how their organization had sustained an operations loss<\/a> stemming partly from entering the global warming debate.<\/p>\n

From that, it would be fair to ask if Gelbspan saw the potential narrative derailment arising out of a full disclosure description of Western Fuels, and decided to never mention their “not-for-profit” label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ross Gelbspan’s claim about statements in Western Fuels’ annual report – which are not there – is a major problem. His other consistent description\u00a0about that organization, which leaves out a vital detail, is an additional problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,38,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10538,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}