Textos de referencia:
Pacific Gas & Electric (1970) – Are you ready? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZg82R89Qc
“Are you ready to sit by His throne? Are you ready not to be alone? Someone’s coming to take you home. And if you’re ready, then He’ll carry you home.”
John H. Cushman Jr. – Energy Department Research Is Defended by Outside Panel – The New York Times, 14/06/1995 – http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/14/us/energy-department-research-is-defended-by-outside-panel.html
“With Congressional committees considering deep cuts in the Energy Department’s research budget and some lawmakers suggesting that the whole agency be dismantled, the department today issued a report by outside experts who strongly defended its research programs. … …»This isn’t corporate welfare,» said Mason Willrich, a former chief executive of P.G.&E. Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. «It is a partnership between Government and industry.”
Over 80 U.S. Companies Call on President Obama & Congress to Enact Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation – We can Lead, 21/01/2009 – http://wecanlead.org/newsroom/release0120.html
“More than 80 leading CEOs from U.S. businesses, including Exelon, Virgin America, NRG Energy, eBay and PG&E, sent a letter to President Obama and members of Congress today calling on them to move quickly to enact comprehensive climate and energy legislation that will create jobs and enhance U.S. competitiveness.”
Kate Galbraith – Utility Quits Alliance over Climate Change – The New York Times – 22/09/2009 – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/business/energy-environment/23utility.html
“We find it dismaying that the chamber neglects the indisputable fact that a decisive majority of experts have said the data on global warming are compelling and point to a threat that cannot be ignored,” Peter A. Darbee, the chairman of PG&E, wrote in a letter to the chamber … “We have over three million members, and we don’t comment on the comings and goings of our membership,” Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the chamber, said in response to PG&E’s announcement.”
Joseph Romm – BrightSource CEO John Woolard: We “understand what it takes” to build major CSP projects like Ivanpah – Climate Progress, 08/08/2010 – http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/08/brightsource-ceo-john-woolard-ivanpah-concentrated-solar-thermal-power-csp/
“BrightSource has faced opposition to the Ivanpah project on a number of fronts, most notably because the initial 6-square-mile project footprint was in the habitat of the threatened desert tortoise. The Sierra Club wanted them to relocate the project entirely, which would have threatened the $1.37 billion loan guarantee the Energy Department has awarded for the project. BrightSource technology uses thousands of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a boiler on top of a 459-foot metal tower. The steam generated as the liquid is boiled is piped to a turbine and generates electricity. Ivanpah should power about 140,000 homes and the energy has already been sold to Pacific Gas & Electric and Sourthern California Edison.”
David R. Baker – PG&E to end carbon offset plan after few sign on – San Francisco Chronicle, 11/11/2011 – http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/11/BUPR1LTB45.DTL&type=business
“Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s ClimateSmart program, which lets the utility’s customers go «carbon neutral» for a price, will close at the end of the year after signing up far fewer people than expected. Begun in 2007, ClimateSmart gives participants a way to offset greenhouse gas emissions from the power plants that supply their electricity.”
Mareike Britten et al (Eds.) (2011) – Who’s holding us back? – Greenpeace, 23/11/2011 – http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/Whos-holding-us-back/
“In the US alone, approximately $3.5 bn is invested annually in lobbying activities at the federal level.6 The US Chamber of Commerce tops the list of lobbyists.7 In recent years, Royal Dutch Shell, the US Chamber of Commerce, Edison Electrical Institute, PG&E, Southern Company, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips all made the top 20 list of lobbyists.8 The climate campaign organisation 350.org estimates that 94% of US Chamber of Commerce contributions went to climate denier candidates.”
Ryan Yonk and Devin Stein – Solar Energy’s Real Problem – American Thinker, 26/05/2016 – http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/solar_energys_real_problem.html
“Ivanpah is unable to meet its intended electricity generation of 940,000 megawatt-hours per year, despite its designation as the largest concentrated solar plant in the world. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) received only 45 percent of the electricity it expected from Ivanpah in 2014 and 68 percent in 2015. Output is so low, in fact, that it fails to meet Ivanpah’s power purchase agreement, which requires a set amount of electricity production for a certain price.”
Patricia Cohen – Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It – The New York Times, 09/03/2017 – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/business/economy/corporate-tax-report.html
“Yet if the level is so high, why have so many companies’ income tax bills added up to zero? That’s what a new analysis of 258 profitable Fortune 500 companies that earned more than $3.8 trillion in profits showed. Although the top corporate rate is 35 percent, hardly any company actually pays that. The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group in Washington, found that 100 of them — nearly 40 percent — paid no taxes in at least one year between 2008 and 2015. Eighteen, including General Electric, International Paper, Priceline.com and PG&E, incurred a total federal income tax bill of less than zero over the entire eight-year period — meaning they received rebates. The institute used the companies’ own regulatory filings to compute their tax rates.”
U.S. Climate Action Partnership – Meridian Institute, 13/03/2017 – http://www.us-cap.org/
“AES Alcoa, Alstom Boston Scientific Corporation, Chrysler Deere & Company, The Dow Chemical Company, Duke Energy, DuPont Environmental Defense Fund, Exelon Corporation, Ford Motor Company, FPL Group, General Electric, General Motors Corporation, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, NRG Energy, PepsiCo, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, PG&E Corporation, PNM Resources, Rio Tinto, Shell, Siemens Corporation, Weyerhaeuser, World Resources Institute.”
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