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Monday, September 26, 2011

"Green" talk, brown action

Oregon's troubled Jeld-Wen window company will have to shell out a cool $850,000 in fines for air pollution in three states. That probably won't stop it from touting its sustainability credentials, however.

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Comments (7)

Great title... too much green talk around town, especially the politicos.

Posted by Harry | September 26, 2011 6:00 PM

Sounds like someone ate the green acid.

Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | September 26, 2011 6:05 PM

These are the job-killing regulations they are talking about.

Posted by Indie | September 26, 2011 7:35 PM

Jeld-Wen is probably environmentally greener than any of the subsidized so-called green solar companies. And I believe they are greener in tax dollars because they have few taxpayer subsidies.

Posted by lw | September 26, 2011 10:23 PM

'Sustainable'(?) employee-free zone.

Australia: Jeld-Wen strike into third week, By Mike Head, World Socialist Web Site, 23 September 2011

More than 300 workers in four Australian states are into the third week of a determined strike against wage-cutting by Jeld-Wen, a transnational door and window manufacturer. Faced with the US-based company’s refusal to drop its aggressive demands, the strikers are still picketing the Corinthian Doors and William Russell Doors plants in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

The Jeld-Wen dispute flows directly from the intensifying global financial crisis that began in 2007-08, when it devastated the US home-building industry, and underscores how the assault on jobs and conditions in the US, Europe and globally is now being replicated in manufacturing and other basic industries in Australia. Far from backing down, Jeld-Wen has threatened to move its production out of Australia unless the workforce accepts ....

Posted by Tenskwatawa | September 26, 2011 11:48 PM

Instead of "put a bird on it", the Portland Motto should be "make something Green out of it".

They could greenwash a toxic sludge burning facility in P-town.

Posted by Mister Tee | September 27, 2011 7:08 AM

Mister Tee, you're right, and it is reality that Sam's P-town can greenwash anything toxic.

In SoWhat, PDC/CoP wants to build a biomass/woodwaste burning "energy plant" to provide electricity for a "district" energy system. That is funny because 15 years ago they removed the PGE biomass power plant right south of RiverPlace in SoWhat. And, of course, since the BioMass PLant is in a URA they want us taxpayers to pay for it, but the "stakeholders" of SoWhat gets the electricity essentially free. So we'll be seeing a continous string of trucks hauling waste into SoWhat to burn. It almost makes the ICE Jail a pleasure. But both entities are still stoppable. Let's hope.

Good Planning. Reality is real.

Posted by Lee | September 27, 2011 10:23 AM




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