[Sustain] [CCEA_Advocacy] PG&E Escalating Its Greenwashing Machine

[Eric Brooks]

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/03/pges_green_war_chest.html

SF Bay Guardian:


      PG&E's Green War Chest?

Greetings, Californians for a Clean Energy Future! 
<http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1303053&view=general> 
Welcome to the fold <http://frontgroups.org/> of innocuous sounding, 
pseudo-environmental political front groups. This one is brought to us 
by our buddies over at Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

The group, which doesn't seem to have a Web site or any other physical 
manifestation outside of filings with the California Secretary of State, 
already has $340,000 ready and waiting for the upcoming election cycle. 
According to a Secretary of State spokesperson, the group was born on 
Dec. 21, 2007. The only contact is the law firm Nielsen Merksamer, which 
has a history of teaming up with PG&E to break the law for political 
gain. <http://www.sfbg.com/39/04/news_sutton.html>

So far, they haven't spent a cent -- all of which were dumped into the 
committee by PG&E in three lump sums. 
<http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1303053&view=received> 
Wonder what they're going to spend all that money on? Since it's calling 
itself a "coalition of environmentalists, taxpayers, and Pacific Gas and 
Electric Company," it could go for or against nearly anything -- 
including boosting Prop 98 
<http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/98_06_2008.aspx> on this June's 
ballot. If passed, the measure would kill rent control and make it 
illegal for governments to use eminent domain to seize utility 
infrastructure and use it to provide the services themselves, an idea 
San Francisco has considered in the past and Stockton is currently 
pursuing. 
<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=A_SPECIAL0209>

Posted by Amanda Witherell on March 14, 2008 03:11 PM

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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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