<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To: US Senator Steve Daines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">From : Lance Olsen</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Subject : Economic and capital risk</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Date : July 25, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Dear Senator Daines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I feel pretty safe in assuming that you, as a Republican, stand publicly as a guardian of the economy, and as a defender of capital. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Given these concerns, you’ve likely heard of the capital investments firms forming an alliance based on their shared concerns about the economy and capital. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You likely know already that, at the time of their joint statement as of December 2018, 415 capital investment firms had signed on. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You may also know that, together, their concerns span across capital assets that may be worth more money than twice the value of China’s entire economy.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">It seems a pretty safe bet that, when this new alliance of capital investors issued its statement of last December, word of it worked its way around Washington.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Concerned for the safety of investment capital, the 415 firms, now allied as the new <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class=""> </span>has begun a campaign asking that governments cease subsidy of fossil fuels, and initiate a price on carbon. They also called for corporations to disclose their own exposure to risk associated with fossil fuels and the atmosphere’s carbon problem.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You may have already been advised that, since its December statement of requests, the alliance has grown from 415 to 470+.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I’d be interested in your perspective on this matter.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Lance Olsen</div></body></html>