EDITORIAL GREEN(BACK) POWER DWP'S CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM EXPOSED AS ANOTHER CITY HALL FRAUD.THE most honest thing about the city of Los Angeles' Green Power Program, it turns out, is its name: A lot of people made a lot of greenbacks on the clean energy effort and the public got the bill. The Department of Water and Power's environmental program was ostensibly os·ten·si·ble adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity. set up to show how the nation's smoggiest city was responding to the growing public demand for more efficient and environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] energy sources. The DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection convinced the world its Green Power Program was a spectacular success. It was a big lie. The program was sham. City records reveal that despite sinking $4.8 million of taxpayer money into public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most contracts with P.R. firms Fleishman-Hillard and The Lee Andrews Lee Andrews (born April 23, 1984) is an English professional footballer, most recently playing as a full-back for Torquay United. Football career Andrews was born in Carlisle and began his career as a trainee with his local side Carlisle United, turning professional in Group, only 2 percent of customers are signed up for the program. Nearly 75 percent of the 100,000 who supposedly were in the program and paying an extra $3 a month have dropped out. That's because the DWP put 70,000 low-income households that weren't paying a cent extra on the Clean Power books and had to remove them when they got caught cheating. Since cheating, stealing and lying are not punishable offenses in Mayor James Hahn's administration, it should come as no surprise that no one was fired over this or any of the other scandals at the DWP. The upshot is that Green Power might be a failure in Los Angeles. But the power of ``greenbucks'' is still going strong. |
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