1/6/2009, "Renewable Energy Law Alert: Siemens AG's $1.6 Billion Penalty for Bribing Foreign Officials is a Warning to the International Energy Industry," Stoel Rives Attorneys at Law
Many think of Siemens as a company who 'cares' about the planet and is therefore ethical. They had the "2011 Siemens Sustainable Community Awards." Its ads can be found in relevant Time Magazine articles. The "sustainable" logo below was even shared by Time and Siemens in a 2010 Time article:
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A large Siemens ad appeared in a 5/10/12 Time Magazine article about catastrophic man caused global warming:
5/10/12, "Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math," Time Magazine, Paul Tullis
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Siemens charging stations were the ones in the 2011 Chevy Volt charger fires:
11/5/11, "Duke Energy Warns Customers to Not Use EV Charging Stations After Fire Involving Siemens Charger and Chevy Volt," Cars in Depth blog, Ronnie Schreiber
"After a house fire in Mooresville, NC which started in the home’s garage was traced the the area near a charging station for an electric vehicle, WSOC-TV reported that Duke Energy, which installed the Siemens built charging station, has warned customers to not use similar units while the investigation into the fire proceeds."...
photo above, "Siemens VersiCharge charging station, like the one installed in a home garage that burned in Moorseville, NC." from Cars in Depth blog
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Also in 2011, Siemens parts were used in Communist Chinese bullet trains that crashed and killed people:
8/12/11, "Chinese bullet trains pulled over 'flaws'," news 24
"The report quoted a spokesperson for China CNR Corp as saying the trains were being recalled due to glitches in some components and said the company would share the costs with its suppliers, including Germany's Siemens."
At least 43 reported dead in train crash:
7/25/11, "China's effort to muzzle news of train crash sparks outcry," Reuters, Ben Blanchard, Sui-Lee Wee
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For Siemens, bribery was considered normal:
2/13/2009, "At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item," PBS.org, FrontlineWorld, Schubert and Miller, story also published in NY Times
"What is striking...is how entrenched corruption had become at a sprawling, sophisticated corporation that externally embraced the nostrums of a transparent global marketplace built on legitimate transactions.
Mr. Siekaczek (pronounced SEE-kah-chek) says that from 2002 to 2006 he oversaw an annual bribery budget of about $40 million to $50 million at Siemens. Company managers and sales staff used the slush fund to cozy up to corrupt government officials worldwide....
Although court documents are salted throughout with the word "bribes," the Justice Department allowed Siemens to plead to accounting violations because it cooperated with the investigation and because pleading to bribery violations would have barred Siemens from bidding on government contracts in the United States. Siemens doesn't dispute the government's account of its actions."...
-------------------------------------Siemens even bribed in the Iraq Oil for Food program:
pbs.org: "In Venezuela, it was $16 million for urban rail lines. In China, $14 million for medical equipment.
- And in Iraq, $1.7 million to Saddam Hussein and his cronies....
Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia are the five countries where corporate bribery is most common, according to Transparency International. The S.E.C. complaint said Siemens paid
- its heftiest bribes in China, Russia, Argentina, Israel and Venezuela."...
UN climate boss Figueres says companies like Siemens are key to global climate deals and should 'prod' governments to realize how much cash there is in 'climate':
9/20/10, "Climate Deal May Need Company Lobbying, Figueres Says," Bloomberg,
"Success at climate-change talks in Mexico may depend on companies such as Siemens AG and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. prodding governments into action,
- said Christiana Figueres, the United Nations climate chief.
Companies should lobby governments to recognize the business opportunities that arise from curbing global warming, Figueres today told a group that tracks carbon emissions by the world’s largest companies. Helping developing countries deliver more energy with fewer warming gases represents
- a “huge opportunity,” she said at a conference in New York.
Figueres will lead UN climate talks in Cancun that begin in November to advance negotiations that stalled last year in Copenhagen....“Business needs to make the government representatives understand that this could be to their advantage,” Figueres said.
- “Government will be bolder if they are told that they can do so by investors and businesses.”
Figueres spoke at the presentation of a report from the Carbon Disclosure Project, a group backed by 534 institutional investors with more than $64 trillion in assets under management that tracks emissions by companies. In an annual survey of 500 of the world’s largest public companies,
almost 90 percent of those responding identified “significant opportunities” from climate change,
- up from 80 percent last year."...
Siemens spoke with ClimateGate climate scientists about being a corporate sponsor for some of their CO2 research:
On Oct. 5, 2009, ClimateGate emailer Martin Lutyens writes to Andrew Manning he hopes a company like Siemens won't see information disputing ClimateGaters' views on CO2. A day later, Oct. 6, Andrew Manning says he's in talks with Siemens about money for CO2 research. (ClimateGate1 links may be inactive):
From ClimateGate emails:
"Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:50:38 +0100
Subject: Co2 Data
From: Martin Lutyens
To: Andrew Manning
Dear Andrew,
I just came across an article in The Week, called "The case of the vanishing data". It
writes in a rather wry and sceptical way about your UEA colleagues Phil Jones and Tom
Wigley , saying that only their "homogenised" or "adjusted" historical data is
available, and the original, raw data has gone missing. Apparently some other
environmental gurus now want to look at the original data and were "fobbed off".
According to the article, the adjusted data forms the basis for much of the climate change debate and , because others now want to look at the source data, it is "at the centre of an academic spat that could have major implications for the climate change debate"....
The article concludes, "In short, the data invoked to verify the most significant
forecasts about the world's future, have simply vanished."
Could you comment on this please, as someone (eg Siemens Corp.) may pick this up and I think we should all be forearmed by knowing what really happened and what to say if asked.
Many thanks, Martin
Martin Lutyens
+44 (0) 207 938 2387
+44 (0) 796 646 2661"
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The next day, Oct. 6, 2009, Phil Jones writes to Andrew Manning that he's getting fed up with allegations and blames "right wing websites." Andrew Manning writes back to Phil Jones on 10/6 that he's in talks with Siemens and it's looking 'promising:'
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ClimateGate emails, continuing:
"Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia"
"From: Phil Jones
To: Andrew Manning
Subject: Re: Fwd: Co2 Data
Date: Tue Oct 6 08:38:04 2009
Andrew,
Getting a bit fed up with these baseless allegations....
It is the right wing web sites doing all this, presumably in the
build up to Copenhagen."
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"At 00:13 06/10/2009, (Oct. 6, 2009), Andrew Manning wrote:
Hi Phil,
Is this another witch hunt (like Mann et al.)? How should I respond to the below?
(I'm in the process of trying to persuade Siemens Corp. (a company with half a million employees in 190 countries!) to donate me a little cash to do some CO2 measurments here in the UK - looking promising, so the last thing I need is news articles
calling into question (again) observed temperature increases - I thought we'd moved the debate beyond this, but seems that these sceptics are real die-hards!!).
Kind regards,
Andrew"
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The US government likes Siemens, went easy on Siemens so they could continue to win lucrative US government contracts:
"This reporting is the result of a joint investigation of international bribery by PBS FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. A FRONTLINE documentary, Black Money, will air on April 7, 2009 at 9 P.M. ET on PBS.
This story was published by The New York Times on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008."
"Although court documents are salted throughout with the word "bribes," the Justice Department allowed Siemens to plead to accounting violations because it cooperated with the investigation and because pleading to bribery violations- would have barred Siemens from
- bidding on government contracts in the United States.
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4/16/09, "Wall Street realized there was money to be made by going green." Robert Redford
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6/28/2007, "Digging up the roots of the IPCC," Tom Gilland, spiked-online
"Politicians became highly receptive to claims of future danger. By the late 1980s, Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister of the UK, was eager to demonstrate the seriousness with which she took environmental issues in general and climate issues in particular. In September 1988, she gave a much-publicised speech to the Royal Society in which, citing concerns over global warming, the ozone layer and acid depositions, she stated: ‘For generations, we have assumed that the efforts of mankind would leave the fundamental equilibrium of the world’s systems and atmosphere stable. But it is possible that with all these enormous changes (population, agricultural, use of fossil fuels) concentrated into such a short period of time, we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this planet itself.’ She concluded the speech arguing that ‘stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nurtured and safeguarded’, and ‘protecting this balance of nature is therefore one of the great challenges of the late twentieth century’.
In the United States, despite disagreement among different state organisations about the seriousness of the threat of global warming, there was also a clear desire to act and gain some control of the issue. Indeed, it was the United States, as Agrawala details (25), which initiated the process to set up the IPCC through the UNEP and WMO as early as 1986 - well before the extensive media coverage of the summer of 1988. In June 1987, a WMO Executive Council resolution to establish, in co-ordination with the UNEP, ‘an intergovernmental mechanism to carry out internationally coordinated scientific assessments of the magnitude, impact and potential timing of climate change’ was passed and welcomed by the UNEP."...
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If it's 'green' business, Siemens is likely cashing in. Like they did with the Nazis:
9/11/2008, "11 Companies That Surprisingly Collaborated With the Nazis," 11points.com
"Siemens took slave laborers during the Holocaust and had them help construct the gas chambers that would kill them and their families. Good people over there.
Siemens also has the single biggest post-Holocaust moment of insensitivity of any of the companies on this list. In 2001, they tried to trademark the word "Zyklon" (which means "cyclone" in German) to become the name a new line of products... including a line of gas ovens.
Zyklon, of course, being the name of the poison gas used in their gas chambers during the Holocaust.
A week later, after several watchdog groups appropriately freaked out, Siemens withdrew the application. They said they never drew the connection between the Zyklon B gas used during the Holocaust and their proposed Zyklon line of products. (Source: BBC)"
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