Enron wanted to sell natural gas and electricity generated by burning
natural gas. That made Ken Lay a friend to NRDC and other simplistic
environmentalist. Ralph Cavanagh, head of NRDC's energy practice,
was quoted in the Cascadia Time in 1997 as follows:
>>Ralph Cavanagh, a leading energy expert with the Natural Resources
Defense Fund in San Francisco, goes so far as to give Kenneth Lay at
least partial credit for political victories for the environment in
the 104th Congress: "When the infant 104th Congress went to town on
the nation's environmental laws, we appealed for help from the
corporate community. Many former friends were conspicuously silent;
Ken Lay was an extraordinarily honorable -- and initially lonely --
exception, and he is part of the reason why the bad guys ultimately
failed at most of what they attempted. He's also been a strong friend
of renewable energy, an investor in wind and solar, and a progressive
voice on global climate issues. On environmental stewardship, our
experience is that you can trust Enron."
On May 7, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Generally I don’t have much to say about Spiked online nowadays
since the ex-members of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great
Britain have pretty much severed all their connections to the left.
Although they are somewhat coy about their ideology, the impartial
observer can recognize it immediately as libertarianism without the
bellicose foreign policy associated with today’s Ayn Rand supporters.
There are a few exceptions, however-most notably James Heartfield
who wrote an interesting review of Rick Kuhn’s Isaac Deutscher Prize-
winning biography of Henryk Grossman, a Marxist economist who had a
significant influence on the RCP in the 1980s.
Apparently James has a new book out. Titled “Green Capitalism:
Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance“, it contains the kind
of tirades that are the stock-in-trade of Spiked online. But where
most contributors to Spiked frame their arguments in nebulous terms
of “progress” and “human development”, James is more comfortable
invoking Karl Marx-even if he neglects those aspects of Marx’s
writings that would clash with Spike’s editorial slant. I am of
course referring to Marx’s deep concern about soil fertility, which
was to the 19th century what climate change is today.
While I doubt that I will have either the time or the interest to
read James’s book, I was motivated to write something about an
excerpt that appears on the Metamute website. I don’t know much
about this Zine, except that it seems to attract bright young things
from the leftwing of the academy.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/was-enron-green/
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