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Scottish Power and Climate
Change
Below are extracts of letters between the energy supplier Scottish Power 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 Jose Luis del Valle,
Chief Executive –
You’ve got five million
accounts, you’re expanding all the time, and you’re cutting your prices. Good
for you. As well as one of your customers I know how good you are – even though
you are at the other end of the country. I’m one of your best account holders.
My daughter Tracey doesn’t need a summer’s day to put on her sunglasses or a
posh event to wear her high heels and short skirt, but she still spends four
hours a day in the bathroom getting ready to do it. As for my boy Wayne, quite
why he spends so much time in there as well I do not know. How long does it take
to get ready for a job holding up a placard in Oxford Street that says Golf
Sale?
This global warming thing has gone too far. It’s just the latest scare – bird
‘flu one week, SARS the next, AIDS another. If we all keep our heads down then
it should blow over, like a nuclear cloud. I hope that you are not going to get
rushed into hasty action that you regret for the rest of your life. We have
enough of this already in our country.
Do the greens really want
us to throw away the Xmas lights, cook over open fires and take cold showers?
Now, cold showers have their use for boys of a certain age – though I’m
uncertain if they have made any difference to Wayne yet – but I can’t believe
they are good for the rest of us. And are we really expected to recycle our own
waste to produce energy? Once I’ve been to the toilet I don’t want to see what I
left there again. And I’m sure you don’t either – your own waste that is, not
mine. Just Say No to the greens.
Scottish Power replied –
You will be pleased to note endeavour to provide a secure, sustainable and
affordable supply of energy to our five million customers through the United
Kingdom. We measure the environmental and societal impact of our activities and
report these in an annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
Letter to Scottish Power
Reply from Scottish Power
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