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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bo Loo" data-source="post: 981373" data-attributes="member: 65732">Obama must not have conducted inside trading on the companies that will benefit from the pipeline like its' biggest advocate, John Boehner."...according to Boehners financial disclosure forms, he invested $10,000 to $50,000 each in seven firms that had a stake in Canadas oil sands, the region that produces the oil the pipeline would transport. The firms include six oil companiesBP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxonalong with Emerson Electric, which has a contract to provide the digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada. Bill McKibben, a climate activist and co-founder of the group 350.org, wrote in an e-mail that Boehner has received more than $1 million from fossil-fuel companies, and now we find out that hes got extensive personal investments in companies dependent on tarsands oil. He was willing to shut down the government in part to prevent enough time for serious environmental review, McKibben added. In any other facet of our public life .&#8201;.&#8201;. this whole list taken together would be seen for the gross conflict of interest that it is.</blockquote>