Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Entergy, all pretty in green!

Wow, what a relief, I can sleep so much better at night now... They don't credit the illustrator in this report... I'd like to find out who it is, just so I can ask him, or her, how it felt cashing in the check.
Of course, no mention in the text of the $300 million Entergy received from the Federal government last year to clean up their mess in New Orleans... or the billions of tax payers money spent managing their waste... maintaining security on their uranium supply chain, or the damage still imposed on Native American communities... As long as the drawings are cute... who cares? Right?
Gee, we're like so looking forward this bright green nuclear renaissance, with Al Gore and Robert Kennedy Jr. leading the way climbing over the Hollywood prop barricades... For after all... the enemy is oil and coal now... nuclear is our friend again... and Indian Point is so pretty in the moonlight... watching over the Hudson... the fish are happy, the water is clean... the radiation is invisible... the teamsters will watch after you... make the pain of cancer and still births go away... the lies, the deception, the rotten to the core corporate culture, the suits who don't care, just follow the letter of the law... here's our sustainability report... we're part of the community, we care... we're part of a conspiracy that has kept electron production out of the hands of the people, so we can stay fat on the hog, and spend lavishly on pretty PR campaigns to sway children and naive, gullible saps!
Entergy, wow... wow o wow... too cheap to meter... cause all the costs are hidden... delegated to the next generation... Sherwood's been away, a family emergency, he better get back to his blog soon, otherwise I may indeed write or say something there's no turning back from... we police each other... we both have a different set of "don't go there..." but this report... THIS report... really makes me want to scream... because it's so freakin' 1980 greenwash... it's like they don't even have a decent PR team... they are so clueless as to the "real" mood of the country... which is good, which is very good, because this thing will only go to make people angrier... angrier than they already are... at this plant, which persists, which everybody wants gone, which just hangs on and on... with their useless sirens and incompetent staff... a comedy of errors which I hope to God won't lead to something we can't walk away from... and according to this report... everything's just fine... you can sleep at night, we have it all under control, we're your friends... we just make lots and lots of $$$ for a sliver of billionaires... while for half as much, a tenth perhaps, we'd have PVs on every roof!
Wake up people... if Kennedy Jr. there is serious about this barricades stuff... well he better start putting his money where his mouth is and join us, because I really don't see him climb over anything without his handlers cell phoning him it's OK, the press is there, be ready for your media close up...

http://www.entergy.com/content/our_community/pdfs/sustainability_report_06.pdf

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ANNUAL REPORTS TO SHAREHOLDERS, PROXY STATEMENTS
http://entergy.com/investor_relations/annual_publications.aspx
CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVES
http://entergy.com/our_community
ON THE BRINK: THE HOME ENERGY AFFORDABILITY GAP
http://entergy-neworleans.com/global/our_community/advocate/GAP.pdf
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
http://entergy-neworleans.com/global/our_community/advocate/colton_assistance.pdf
THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION - PUBLIC BENEFITS OF HIGH-QUALITYPRESCHOOL EDUCATION FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN
http://entergy-neworleans.com/global/our_community/advocate/education_book.pdf
GLOBAL SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES
www.thesullivanfoundation.org/gsp

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