Firm offers to pay for pupils to see Gore film (Scotland)

[deadparrot]

EVERY schoolchild in Scotland is to be offered the chance to see former US vice-president Al Gore's film about the dangers of global warming under a scheme by energy company ScottishPower.

The firm, a major windfarm developer which also runs the coal-fired Longannet power station, is prepared to commit "tens of thousands of pounds" to the project and is currently in negotiations with the Scottish Executive to secure its backing.

ScottishPower, which has also given copies of Mr Gore's book of the same name, An Inconvenient Truth, to hundreds of its staff, plans to pay for cinema screenings for older children in primary schools and all secondary pupils. The firm is currently discussing with the Executive how pupils could be bussed to cinemas, and to cinema owners about times for screenings.

The idea came about after Stephen Dunn, the company's director of human resources and communications, bought the book in the US while visiting a company owned by ScottishPower.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1795672006

[marmar]

1. Again, we're forced to look upon another country with jealous eyes...

Sigh. :eyes:

[Harper_is_Bush]

8. WTF? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS DIDN'T MAKE GREATEST!?!?!

This story is huge, and let's hope the gesture spreads.

That would be wonderful. Bill Gates, you listnen?

[valerief]

2. I wish we didn't live in a banana republic. nt

[Vidar]

3. Cheering ScottishPower.

[sweetheart]

6. more windfarms in wilderness areas!!

Scottish power is like Pacific Gas and Electric, its got some good PR, but
they do what power companies do....:

This photo shows a highland hilltop to be populated by 100m tall turbines,
likely the last time you'll see this image without turbines in it,
and forgiving my poor photography of the gate, it is a stunning place,
worthy of national park or state park status at the very least, but
as unprotected, scottish power is in there with all the others to windfarm
the rural areas and turn the ancient undeveloped spaces in to power stations.

No central big-corporation will save us.

[Vidar]

7. Obviously, you know more about it than I do, and I share your

mistrust of large corporations, but I believe yours are at least better regulated than ours. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[MasonJar]

4. That is phenomental, especially since the US Science Teachers

Organization refused a free gift of 100s of 1000s for science teachers to use in their classrooms. I am still truly appalled expecially in light of the fact that they take and show propaganda from the oil industry.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Scotland rocks!

:yourock:

K & R

[Harper_is_Bush]

9. WTF? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS DIDN'T MAKE GREATEST!?!?!

This story is huge, and let's hope the gesture spreads.

That would be wonderful. Bill Gates, you listnen?