[Vision2020] 2009 Avista Report Supports Federal Cap and Trade to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 12:27:55 PDT 2011


Avista supplies electricity to 359,000 customers and natural gas to
319,000 in eastern Washington, northern Idaho and parts of southern
and eastern Oregon, with a population of 1.5 million, according to
recent figures from this article: Regional Power Settlement
Benefitting Customers Nears Completion, PORTLAND, Ore. –April 07,
2011: http://www.pacificorp.com/about/newsroom/2011nrl/rpsbcnc.html

Many would, I am guessing, consider it a "corporate" energy business,
representing mainstream capitalist values and goals.

Then explain the following Avista sustainability report referencing
climate change and cap and trade, that according to the Tea Party
Republican "Bible" is heresy, an unequivocal endorsement of climate
change as a serious issue and adoption of a federal cap and trade
system to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Has Avista fallen under the nefarious spell of the great global
warming science hoax (Climate Change Update: Senate Floor Statement by
Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla: January 4, 2005: "greatest hoax ever
perpetrated on the American people,"
http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm ) and the
international socialist plot to enforce big government regulation with
climate change scare mongering?

Cyncially, perhaps Avista's endorsement of cap and trade is aimed at
exploiting the climate change issue for financial gain, given Avista
already has joined what some consider a climate change financial scam,
the "Chicago Climate Exchange" (Spokane Wash. Nov. 5, 2007: Avista
Joins Chicago Climate Exchange: Company commits to reducing carbon
footprint: http://avistacorp.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=783 ).

>From the following 2009 Avista Sustainability Report:

http://www.avistautilities.com/inside/ourbusiness/Documents/Avista%20Sustainability%20bro(h4)%5B1%5D.pdf

Addressing the Effects of Climate Change

Society's reponse to climate change will greatly effect our customers
and the prices paid for energy in the future.

Avista strongly supports timely enactment of federal "cap and trade"
legislation or other alternatives to achieve dramatic reductions in
the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG),...
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