Russ George

Russ George (Darcy Russel George; born 6 December 1949) is an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the San Francisco–based firm Planktos Inc. which claims to "restore ecosystems and slow climate change". In 2007 he provided testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The ecorestoration treeplanting company he founded in Canada in 1973 originally called Coast Range has planted upwards of 250 million trees. In the 90s, he founded several companies conducting cold fusion research. He used to be member of Greenpeace and was part of the crew of the Rainbow Warrior, though by 2012 he and Greenpeace were adversarial. He has attracted media attention for his company's large-scale geoengineering experiments; the first, an attempt to perform an iron-fertilization project off the coast of the Galapagos Islands in 2007, was stopped by governments and environmentalists. A UN moratorium on iron fertilization was passed as a result. In 2012, he dumped 100 tonnes of iron-rich dust into the ocean of British Columbia through the company Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation, resulting in a government investigation.