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Centrica and
Climate Change
Below are
extracts of letters between the energy supplier Centrica, owner of British Gas,
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 Sam
Laidlaw, Chief Executive –
What it is like to run British Gas?
Well I think you are doing a great job. I’ve stuck with you through thick and
thin despite the enticements to go elsewhere and the better deals uswitch.com
tells me I can get. My wife is a major supporter of yours, which she shows by
keeping the central heating on during the summer.
My reason for writing, Sam, is the noise being made about climate change. The
Energy Bill, the Climate Change Bill, European Directives. But it’s all an
invention for the greens to make us feel guilty about staying warm, or keeping
cool, or washing properly; something they know nothing about.
Climate change is being used to blame all the world’s ills. Aids,
poverty, lack of snow for skiing in the Alps, the fact that England can’t win at
anything. Why anyone believes in the thing is as much a mystery as Salman
Rushdie getting a knighthood and Piers Morgan.
I hope that you’ll stand up to the greens, or even better, give lip service to
it. Say you’ll do something, then don’t. It’s always been a successful ploy in
my business of self-made IT millionaire.
Centrica replied –
Centrica has taken a markedly different approach to the one you propose. Our
business takes Climate Change very seriously indeed.
We’ve done a lot already – for example we have the lowest carbon intensity of
any major electricity supplier in the UK. That’s because we don’t own any highly
polluting coal stations to generate our electricity, and because of our massive
investment in new renewable generation.
Letter to Centrica
Reply from Centrica
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