  A natural oil seep in Ventura County, CA California
environmental group advocates drilling to reduce oil pollution
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Interesting... By jbartabas on 8/29/2008 3:07:10 PM , Rating: 0
A conflict of interest only applies to a person with fiduciary,
managerial, or legal authority over a matter, which doesn't seem
to apply in this case.  I think that's because you take the
legal definition (which was not my point). I guess the
expression exists also in the common language, and is much less
restrictive as far as I know. If I take that one: A conflict
between a person's private interests and public obligations.
There is a possible conflict of interest between the publicly
declared goal of the association (which seems to be solely to
decrease the pollution) and the personal gains that some members
could obtain.  However, English being not my native language, I
may misinterpret the full extent of this expression.  If I
reformulate as: there is a possibility th