Whatley’s firm preached the woke gospel of ESG

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When Mike Whatley first appeared out of nowhere in 2019 to be installed as state GOP chairman, he was introduced to us as the co-founder of something called HBW Resources.  We were told it was a  lobbying enterprise that focused mainly on energy issues. According to his LinkedIn profile, he ended his association with the firm in July 2022.

Well take a look at what the firm was promoting as late as 2021(while Whatley was still there and supposedly in-charge):

The Fuels Institute and HBW Resources today announced the launch of ESG Integrity, a software service that provides businesses with a simplified, cost-effective way to report their Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance, backed by the most transparent, reliable method for measuring and recording their environmental impact.

ESG planning is currently a voluntary, non-regulated set of disclosures intended to be shared publicly, which are increasingly being required by lenders, investors and associated companies that share a supply chain.

Against that backdrop, it is incumbent upon businesses to deliver a verifiable accounting of their activities. Many believe ESG planning will become a regulated reporting requirement soon, yet how companies track and report their performance can be complicated, time-consuming and inconsistent.

“ESG Integrity is an online platform through which businesses can enter their ESG-related activities and create an automated report that organizes their data in a logical manner and leverages best-in-class environmental metrics to accurately calculate their environmental impact,” Fuels Institute Executive Director John Eichberger said.

“We tapped the ESG expertise of HBW Resources to develop this service to provide the transportation and energy sectors with a simple and effective tool to track its environmental performance with consistent metrics that can be independently verified.”

“We set out to build ESG Integrity with the twin goals of reducing ESG reporting labor costs by as much as 75%, and of helping companies easily capture their ESG data in a structured manner to provide bona fides to investors, uncover efficiencies and insights for senior management,” HBW Resources Vice President for Risk Management and Sustainability Reporting Ryan Scott said.

“We share with the Fuels Institute the vision that removing uncertainty around ESG reporting standards through ESG Integrity will allow the incorporation of best available practices, especially for smaller businesses that cannot afford the staff larger companies can to establish their ESG reporting discipline.”

ESG plans are rooted in corporate data which can be tracked year-to-year, allowing the reporting company to set goals for improvement. As investor groups and other financial institutions demand insights into climate change mitigation strategies and social equity goals, new tools are required to bring clarity to the frameworks and reporting criteria.

The new program also allows companies to share positive community impacts and plan improvements that can reduce operating expenses through efficiency improvements. The ESG Integrity application stores data, computes emissions and allows users to develop a final report for distribution to investors, lenders and associated organizations.

ESG is a philosophy aimed at measuring you and your business according to the standards of the hardest-left viewers of CNN and MSNBC.  Instead of checking how good you are at paying your bills in full and on-time, ESG evaluates your carbon foot-print and your sensitivity to the needs and desires of the alphabet crowd.    You and / or your business can be denied financing if even the whiff of conservatism is detected upon you.

While Republicans in Raleigh and DC were trying to stomp out this anti-capitalist Marxist nightmare, Whatley Inc. was apparently trying to play nice with it.

Whatley defended Thom Tillis while state Republicans and Trump despised him.  Whatley trashed the same J6 protesters that Trump pardoned in the early days of his second administration.  Now, it’s become clear that his business was promoting something DC and Raleigh Republicans, as well as most thinking capitalists have been trying to stomp the life out of.   And he has a campaign team dominated by Thom Tillis, Nikki Haley, and Mitt Romney fans.  (None of those folks are MAGA or Trump fans.)

Stuff like that is a head-scratcher that makes you wonder WHY this guy is being promoted as authentic MAGA and a supporter of President Trump.