steyer's investment fund, farallon, invests in energy companies.ncluding kinder morgan, a canadian pipeline operator that transports oil sands. but steyer promised to divest from his kinder morgan holdings and pledged to donate money to the victims of western wildfires. he looks to the oil industry for questions and answers. >> how do you take the incident that happened in mayflower and what happened to peoples' lives there, how do you apply that to the work you're doing now against the keystone pipeline? >> let's step back for a second, which is this. i actually believe the solution for our energy problems is going to be corporate america and actually will be private enterprise america. when we get the policy framework right, the people in that sphere will come up with creative, imaginative, innovative solutions that will blow our mind. i mean, if you really look at what's happening in the fossil fuels arena, people are being really creative and innovative. some people hate fracking, but fracking is a new technology that somebody from the united s

raised in the financial capital of the u.s., new york city, but chose to open his investment firm farallon francisco. he founded farallon in 1986 with $8 million, and by the time he stepped down in 2012, he turned the initial investment into $30 billion, making it the fourth-largest hedge fund in the world. his personal fortune is an estimated $2.6 billion.