Our sponsor did WHAT??

[n2doc]

-David R. Baker
For a California sports team, having a solar company as a sponsor is supposed to give your franchise a warm green glow. Yes, we may bust heads on the field, but we care about sustainability too! Especially in the eco-conscious Bay Area, it looks good in the public’s eye and it brings in a few ad dollars to boot. Hard to go wrong with that.

Unless, of course, the solar company who sponsors your team becomes the focus of violent protests for allegedly contaminating a river and killing a bunch of fish.

Such is the situation facing the San Francisco 49ers. Last week, the team announced a sponsorship agreement with JinkoSolar Holding Co., one of the fast-growing Chinese companies whose low-cost panels have shaken up the solar industry (and contributed to the high-profile bankruptcy of Fremont’s Solyndra). As the team’s lone solar sponsor for the 2011-2012 season, JinkoSolar gets to display its signage throughout Candlestick Park, including on the scoreboard. The team even renamed the stadium’s Gate F as “JinkoSolar Gate” for the rest of the season.

The day before the Niners made the announcement, however, an angry crowd of more than 500 people gathered outside a JinkoSolar plant in Haining city, west of Shanghai. Pollution from the plant, they said, had tainted the local river and poisoned the fish. The protest lasted for several days and turned ugly, with demonstrators flipping cars and damaging police vehicles. Thirty one people were detained.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2011/09/22/our-sponsor-did-what/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Fascism Lite?

[The Doctor.]

2. Not sure how that is relevant.

:shrug:

[orpupilofnature57]

3. 2nd Paragraph ,Niners aren't the government ,but an Industry that..

produces more money than Several countries ,Should have to represent American values ,not Corpological.Yes I abused the word Fascism ,but that was the relevance of my intent.How many tax break did you and me give eddie the last eight years?

[The Doctor.]

6. Ah, I see.

It's a stretch, but I get it.

[Honeycombe8]

4. Apparently, polluting is a way of life and accepted by teh govt in China.

At least that's what I got out of a documentary I saw about China. They either have no, or weak, environmental regs. Their own people grow lettuce in fields tainted with lead flowing from the unregulated mines in the hills above the farm field.

Remember how we found unacceptable levels of lead in our dog toys and children's toys imported from China, that our pets & children put in their mouths?

So it wouldn't surprise me that any company is a polluter in China. It's legal there, looks like. Since they have all grown up with it and live with it, I am guessing they just accept it as a necessary way of life. (Of course, to the disadvantaged people in China, who get the brunt of the pollution, I'm sure it's not accepted as a way of life. They're the ones who feel the pain.)

[orpupilofnature57]

5. We'll hunt down political terrorists and spare no expense ,ah but corporate Criminals

we buff their ass ,and give them more money.