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Raising awareness on #KochNetwork #Freeports/#SEZs #DarkMoney #ClimateDenial #FossilFuel #BigOil Doppelganger @SteveCantellow1
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Jan 17 8 tweets 2 min read
#Project2025, if allowed, will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state. #KochNetwork #DarkMoney #HeritageFoundation

michiganadvance.com/2024/01/16/pro… #Project2025 is a sweeping rightwing blueprint for the next Republican president, Trump or not, to run the country for the foreseeable future.
May 10, 2023 13 tweets 4 min read
A guide to the UK's #freeports and #investmentzones.

This is a work in progress and will be updated/rewritten when new information becomes available.

This links the official government information and may be slightly outdated (the maps, in particular). What are #freeports?

gov.uk/guidance/freep…
May 9, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
1/3 Energy giants BP and Equinor agreed to press ahead with plans for £1.5bn development in #Teesside #Freeport after demanding a guarantee they are not becoming involved in a project marred by corruption.

#Houchen #corruption

yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/… 2/3 "Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, who is running the #Teesworks project, confirmed that a “bespoke clause” was inserted into their legal agreement, at the request of the two energy firms."
Apr 22, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
1/ Mr Hunt added: “(#Teesside) is best example in the country of how if you have people who care about how businesses flourish you can really transform an area that has in the past been left behind.” 2/
northeastbylines.co.uk/teesworks-obli…
Apr 21, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ Do investment zones hold the key to unlocking the UK’s growth problem?

#InvestmentZones #Freeports

ukandeu.ac.uk/do-investment-… 2/ First, they were very underwhelming in terms of total job creation. The Treasury predicted that after five years they would have created 54,000 jobs. The actual figure was less than one third of this.
Oct 21, 2022 23 tweets 4 min read
1/ I hope that this thread will highlight, in a very basic way, just some of the connections and interests between the IEA, Atlas, Cato, ExxonMobil, Charles Koch, Philip Morris, Chase Foundation, etc and their influence on the UK government over the last decade. 2/ The Atlas Network

The Atlas Network was founded by Antony Fisher in 1981. It is a non-profit organisation “supporting” over 450 free market and antiregulation organisations worldwide.