Group Doesn’t Speak for Nebraska

The CEA was created in the late 2000s by Whatley, a founding partner of a Washington, D.C.-based Republican lobbying group, HBW Resources, that has close ties to the Alberta, Canada, tar sands industry, according to Sourcewatch, “Consumer Energy Alliance”: https//www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Consumer_Energy_Alliance. Whatley’s CEA is backed by big energy producers such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Marathon, Shell, to name but a few.