Comments on: Shell’s Eureka Film – Utter Greenwashing or Interesting Progress? http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:18:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mle http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-11893 mle Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:30:05 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/#comment-11893 Lorna: I got sucked into "brand loyalty" to BP via the 5% rebate on their Chase Visa card. There are a lot of BP's here in the ghetto, where gas and houses are cheap and everything else is not. Now we learn that BP has plans to haul Canadian tar sands by train from Manitoba all the way down to Gary, Indiana, where they will refine it and dump a whole lot of ammonia into the recently cleaned Lake Michigan. Chicago's not thrilled -- a significant part of its gold-collar attraction is their gorgeous playfront on the lake -- and neither is Michigan. But Indiana just loves the thought of 80 new jobs, and the EPA has said Hey, whatever. Me, I'm going to hold out for all-electric vehicles. Lorna: I got sucked into “brand loyalty” to BP via the 5% rebate on their Chase Visa card. There are a lot of BP’s here in the ghetto, where gas and houses are cheap and everything else is not. Now we learn that BP has plans to haul Canadian tar sands by train from Manitoba all the way down to Gary, Indiana, where they will refine it and dump a whole lot of ammonia into the recently cleaned Lake Michigan. Chicago’s not thrilled — a significant part of its gold-collar attraction is their gorgeous playfront on the lake — and neither is Michigan. But Indiana just loves the thought of 80 new jobs, and the EPA has said Hey, whatever. Me, I’m going to hold out for all-electric vehicles.

]]> By: Lorna Li http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-11892 Lorna Li Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:35:19 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/#comment-11892 I got the video too - as a supporter of rainforests and indigenous rights, it's challenging to fuel up around town (San Francisco). Chevron, with a $6 billion lawsuit for its destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon is a definite NO. ConocoPhillips, which operates the "76" gas stations also has a poor track record in the Amazon. There isn't a BP gas station in sight - otherwise I'd fuel up there. I don't always have the luxury of driving out of my way to a random bumf*ck gas station for gas. Shell might be "greenwash", but is there better choice? Would love to know! I got the video too – as a supporter of rainforests and indigenous rights, it’s challenging to fuel up around town (San Francisco). Chevron, with a $6 billion lawsuit for its destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon is a definite NO.
ConocoPhillips, which operates the “76″ gas stations also has a poor track record in the Amazon.
There isn’t a BP gas station in sight – otherwise I’d fuel up there.
I don’t always have the luxury of driving out of my way to a random bumf*ck gas station for gas. Shell might be “greenwash”, but is there better choice?
Would love to know!

]]> By: editor, Sustainability Southeast http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-11891 editor, Sustainability Southeast Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:05:39 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/08/shells-eureka-film-utter-greenwashing-or-interesting-progress/#comment-11891 From what I gather, Shell is a collection of individual operating companies that happen to have the same name, but are otherwise rather loosely affiliated and autonomous. (As in the Newhart gag, "This is my brother, Larry. This is my other brother, Larry.") That seems to result in some strangely contradictory behaviors. <p> Perhaps that's why the forward-thinking scenario planners from the head office can produce a global warming future scenario for the US Pentagon that's too realistic for the military to acknowledge sponsoring, yet some goons in divisions on other continents do nasty things that create a deserved bad reputation. <p> With that sort of Jekyll and Hyde behavior as a history, it's probably prudent to wonder, as you do, whether this video comes from the Jekyll division or Hyde division.</p></p> From what I gather, Shell is a collection of individual operating companies that happen to have the same name, but are otherwise rather loosely affiliated and autonomous. (As in the Newhart gag, “This is my brother, Larry. This is my other brother, Larry.”) That seems to result in some strangely contradictory behaviors.

Perhaps that’s why the forward-thinking scenario planners from the head office can produce a global warming future scenario for the US Pentagon that’s too realistic for the military to acknowledge sponsoring, yet some goons in divisions on other continents do nasty things that create a deserved bad reputation.

With that sort of Jekyll and Hyde behavior as a history, it’s probably prudent to wonder, as you do, whether this video comes from the Jekyll division or Hyde division.

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