Revealed: The Powerful Network Pushing Wesley Clark’s $3.7 Billion Gas-To-Liquids Plant [View all]

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By Itai Vardi • Monday, May 2, 2016

A small group of powerful and well-connected investors, lobbyists, and politicians are behind a $3.7 billion plan to build a facility to make more than 30,000 barrels of liquid fuel every day from natural gas – a Desmog investigation reveals.

The Arkansas facility could be the first full-scale gas-to-liquid (GTL) plant of its kind in the US, with ambitions to scale up daily production to convert gas into 100,000 barrels of diesel and jet fuel.

The network pulling together to push the project includes a retired NATO general, Clintonites, a former staffer who served both Bush presidencies and a Republican congressman.

After three years of strategic planning, site surveying, and capital raising, the company behind the project, Energy Security Partners (ESP) made its first substantive operational move this month by signing a lease on the land where the plant will be built just north of the city of Pine Bluff in Jefferson County.

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ESP which was co-founded in 2012 by Wesley Clark, retired NATO general and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.

In creating ESP, Clark, an Arkansas resident and long-time friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, teamed with several veteran oil and gas executives and another Clintonite, Rodney Slater, former Transportation Secretary in Bill Clinton’s administration.

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