Hello Minneapolis Folks, Sean Ryan wrote: During the 10pm news on WCCO I saw a disturbing ad. The add showed a family doing family things and smiling while turning up their thermostat. This was followed by a shot of the Minneapolis skyline. The ad was for coal energy 'the affordable energy'. There was no 'paid for by' tag line but I am guessing it is someone's response to Excel's conversion of the Riverside plant. Anyone seen this???
Ken Bradley writes: WCCO is very happy to take advertising revenue from the coal industry, but its parent company CBS refused to run Moveon.org advertisement criticizing President Bush. So much for the liberial media. Europe is moving very quickly away from coal and producing significantly more of its electricity from wind and biomass, yet those technologies have been positioned by US coal, and nuclear interests as variable and reliable. Minnesota has better wind potential then Denmark, yet a similar size population. Denmark produce approximately 18% of its energy from wind, and another significant portion from biomass, solar, with a goal of producing 50% of its energy from renewable. Minnesota policy makers need to create energy policies that support moving towards renewable energy. Denmark leads the world in wind turbine manufacturing, which steel is a major resource need (Minnesota has plenty of iron and jobs that are needed), to produce turbine. They have also reduced their usage through an aggressive conservation program. The short answer: We need to move away from coal and petroleum if we are going to save the planet for our children and grandchildren. Taking advertising revenue from the coal industry is no different then taking it from the tobacco industry. I don't care for second hand smoke or second hand coal and it is even worse to expose my children to it. Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood --- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
