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Spanish contributor from Transnational Temps offers this video from the electric power company Iberdrola which stresses its environmental correctness despite producing only 10% of its energy from wind. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg-S7vPA6_A

Now if American power companies would only make carbon-free power generation a public issue! On the contrary, the Bush administration is pushing the U.S. back into the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl era by advocating financial incentives to generate new nuclear power facilities. Meanwhile compared to european countries, the U.S. lags far behind in wind power production. Outside of California, very little wind power exists in the U.S. in 2007.

Energy Industry Propaganda

These clowns have been advertising in the New York Times and elsewhere that fossil fuels are "advanced" and "new" solutions for our 21st century energy challenges. Right. The coal industry wants us to believe "clean coal" is a smart energy solution. They don't have anything to say about global warming, though, since fossil fuels produce the carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. While the highly publicized coal industry sites hype "clean coal" even their own best examples of the potential of carbon sequestration admit that they are years away from "A full-scale system" because "developing such a system is likely to be very expensive." Read on.

Exxon-Mobil

Exxon corporate citizenship? Yeah, right. This is the same company that has worked tirelessly and spent freely to obfuscate the global warming science issues and convince people through bogus science that the process of warming is a natural occurrence. And what about this idea of "corporate citizenship"? The idea is clear enough, but in reality corporations are not citizens and it has been due in no small degree to this confusion that corporate power has gotten so out of control.

Exxon has also been found to be guilty of astroturfing - simulating grass roots activities for the purposes of public relations or industrial persuasion. The Wall Street Journal and ABC News nailed Exxon for producing an anti-Al Gore video and using a front to distance itself from it.

British Petroleum

No company has gone to such great lengths to project a green image as energy giant BP. In 2000, a year after BP ventured into renewable energy by scooping up Solarex for $45 million, it paid more than four times as much on rebranding, dropping its full name of British Petroleum to become simply BP while adopting the environmentally friendly slogan "Beyond Petroleum" and putting up billboards to promote itself as an alternative-energy company. But has the company really moved beyond petroleum? The BP website tells it straight: "Our main activities are the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing, supply and transportation; and the manufacture and marketing of petrochemicals."

Now it's been reported that BP is planning to conduct hugely counterproductive extraction of oil in Canada, what is being described by environmentalists as the biggest environmental crime in history

General Electric

This company has shown such enthusiasm for greenwashing that it has been given it's own section

Climate and Energy Project

It's great that money is beginning to flow to universities to solve climate problems with technological innovation. But this is only part of the solution because carbon levels need to be reduced immediately rather than at some future date when technology may become available. Since the 1970s when the Carter administration began pushing for energy alternatives, it has been the oil sector that has bought many promising patents, only to sit on them and continue their enormous oil revenues. It is with some skepticism, therefore, that one must view the launch of a new climate research project at Stanford, paid for by Exxon-Mobil.

For example "Due to inconsistencies in G-CEP and Exxon research project goals, a management committee formed by the sponsoring corporations can approve or reject research topics proposed by Stanford researchers."

Is this science or an offshoot of Exxon-Mobil engineering? If scientists are not permitted to follow directions that may not be profitable for Exxon-Mobil, the value of this initiative begins to enter into the terrain of greenwashing.

Microsoft Full Of Itself

Microsoft has been bragging about the energy saving features of its new operating system. But this article explains how Microsoft's lack of concern for energy saving features led their XP operating system to waste $25 billion in energy of the past five years.

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