It was a difficult choice. Should I categorize this under 'News and Politics' or 'Health and Wellness' ...or add a totally new category - What?

 

Bill Gates' Cascade Investment - Company Profile on LinkedIn shows a new hire. While this is not so unusual, what baffles me completely is his penchant to build up his personal portfolio with dirty burning, CO2 spewing, mercury poisoning, acid raining contaminating coal. What? Yes.

 

Cascade not only wanted and got bigger stakes in Otter Tail Power, up to 20% from 9%, FERC Order Issued Oct 2- Cascade is also a holding company through its indirect ownership interests in Optim Energy, LLC, which includes the 305 MW lignite-fired power plant Twin Oaks 160 miles northwest of Houston., and more. You can check out Bill Gates' mini-coal-empire building at PNM Resources Inc.

 

Does Bill have a thing for coal? It would seem so, which is strange considering he claims to care about the health and well being of humanity. In his own words, which I would hear on a radio commercial as I would drive past the Big Stone I Power Plant in South Dakota on my way home to Minnesota '...all lives have equal value—...every person deserves the chance to live a healthy and productive life" -- yeah right Bill. What about those of us who live next to the coal plants you support and continue to build? Isn't there a saying, "To those who have been given much, much is expected?"