{"id":7065,"date":"2016-12-09T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:55:14","slug":"fossil-fuel-pipelines-ctd-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/09\/fossil-fuel-pipelines-ctd-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil Fuel Pipelines, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Minneapolis is looking to the future &#8211; and putting the squeeze on monster bank <em><strong>Wells Fargo<\/strong><\/em>. Local news station <em><strong>WCCO<\/strong><\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/12\/08\/mpls-wells-fargo\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city of Minneapolis is calling out Wells Fargo, saying they are looking into taking their business elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The city council voted unanimously to explore ways they can stop doing business with banks that invest in the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n<p>The council points to <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/12\/01\/dapl-protesters-close-accounts\/\">Wells Fargo\u2019s backing of the Dakota Access Pipeline<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about looking at the options that we have as a city to use our <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">taxpayer<\/span><\/span> dollars in a responsible way, in a way that will protect the environment and the people,\u201d said Councilmember Alondra Cano.<\/p>\n<p>She says she proposed looking into how the city could end its relationship with Wells Fargo after her constituents showed concern that the nation\u2019s fourth-largest <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">bank<\/span><\/span> is backing the pipeline project. And it is not just the environment she is concerned about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talking to a former <em><strong>Wells Fargo<\/strong><\/em> employee, he estimated the Minneapolis account to be significant, and stated that Wells Fargo is hip deep in the fossil fuel industry. While just Minneapolis isn&#8217;t going to be shifting <em><strong>Well Fargo<\/strong><\/em> out of the fossil fuel industry, a few more hits like this might make them start thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Applause for Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Minneapolis is looking to the future &#8211; and putting the squeeze on monster bank Wells Fargo. Local news station WCCO has a report: The city of Minneapolis is calling out Wells Fargo, saying they are looking into taking their business elsewhere. The city council voted unanimously to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/09\/fossil-fuel-pipelines-ctd-11\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7069,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}