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There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Byernwerk, a Bavarian utility, began selling "
There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Byernwerk, a Bavarian utility, began selling "
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2010-04-12
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There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Byernwerk, a Bavarian utility, began selling "Aqua Power" last year when Germany began to let customers choose their electricity supplier. Bayernwerk markets Aqua Power as 100 percent green, renewable, hydroelectric energy. But any customer who signs up gets power from the same mix of sources as before: hydro, gas, coal and nuclear. Nothing changes except some accounting, and there is no net benefit to the environment. There is a benefit, though, to Bayernwerk, which charges more for Aqua Power and has been swamped with orders for it.
Greenwashing takes many forms. "Companies often advertise themselves as environmentally friendly even though they might have some pretty hideous environment records, "says Jill Johnson of the group Earth Day 2002. California’s PG&E, the utility that settled out of court after the real Erin Breckovich accused it of polluting groundwater, runs pro-environmental ads. But PG&E is due in court in November on charges of polluting wells in a second California town. "PG&E has a very good environmental track record, "says spokesman Greg Pruett, citing recycling and waste reduction. Weyerhaeuser, the timber company, cuts old-growth trees in Canada but trumpets the 100 million tree seedlings it will plant this year.
Overall, the greening of corporate America is real and has not been as hard to achieve as some environmental activists imagined. That is especially true for greenhouse gases and climate change, the focus of Earth Day 2000. "Now there is more recognition by companies that there may be an economic advantage to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases," says Paul Portney, president of the think tank Resources for the Future. More and more companies are changing the way they heat and light their buildings and design their factories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as their energy bills. (Energy-efficiency upgrades can save a company roughly $ 1 per square foot of office or factory space every year.) The reductions often exceed those called for in the 1997 international agreement on greenhouse warming called Kyoto Treaty, whose goal of reducing greenhouse emissions 7 percent from their 2000 levels is deemed so threatening to the economy by oil, coal and chemical companies that the White House does not dare to submit to the Senate for ratification.
The "Aqua Power", sold by the Germany utility Bayernwerk, is ______.
选项
A、green energy
B、less expensive
C、ordinary electricity
D、not popular
答案
C
解析
此题为细节题。根据文章第一段,Byernwerk 公司出售Aqua Power,在推销是称该能源为百分之百绿色的、可更新的、水力电气能源,但申请该能源的消费者得到的能源来源却跟从前一样;水、煤气、煤、核。除了账目上有点变化外,其他什么都一样,而且对环境毫无益处。由此可知,Aqua Power 实际上就是一种普通的能源,而非该公司所号称的绿色能源,所以C是本题的正确答案。而不是A。
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