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E.ON and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the energy supplier E.ON, which owns PowerGen, and
Peter Shullot about climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the
page. This is one of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your
supermarket, energy supplier and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines,
house builders and other companies really think about climate change. The name
Peter Shullot is made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
To Dr Paul Golby, Chief Executive –
I’ve
just discovered that Powergen is part of E.ON, the world's largest investor
owned energy company and with around 9 million electricity and gas accounts.
Being a doctor must be useful in your line of work. Good for you – and I’m proud
to have one of those accounts. Or the wife is for expenses’ purposes.
I’ve read that E.ON ‘produce electricity from a portfolio of world class power
stations’. I’ve heard of a share portfolio, not a portfolio of power stations.
It sounds good. Perhaps the generic term for power stations could be a burn or a
rage.
I’m concerned that your portfolio will need to close due to this commotion about
climate change. Now, climate change is all to do with solar and earth activity
and nothing about manmade pursuits. It’s really about interference in big
business.
Now I’m all for recycle, reuse, regurgitate, but turning down the central
heating, turning off the television, and chucking out the baby with the
bathwater – I’m not for it. And as for sharing baths. I last shared a bath with
Mrs Shullot in the first flush of our relationship, thirty years ago. I’m not
sure if either of us is ready to repeat the experience.
E.ON replied –
E.ON recognises the importance of pursuing all available options to meet
national energy objectives to reduce CO2 emissions.
While we are one of the largest owners and operators of wind farms in the UK, we
are also a global leader in planned wind farm investment and are planning to
develop the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
Letter to E.ON
Reply from E.ON
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