Recently, we ventured the thesis that the reason Enbridge alienates stakeholders and creates distrust and opposition is because of its leadership– decades of leadership that that fails to adhere to its own stated values. With the retirement of CEO Patrick Daniel, we thought there might be some hope for a change in Enbridge’s corporate “culture of deviance,” as the NTSB labeled it. Unfortunately, recent indications point to more of the same under new CEO Al Monaco.
Numerous people have brought attention, for instance, to Monaco’s remarks last week about the Kalamazoo River at a recent investor meeting. Monaco worked hard to “greenwash” the cleanup of that river, as the image above, presented at the investors’ conference, demonstrates. What’s frightening to us about those statements is not only, as Anthony Swift explains, that they came on the same day that the EPA ordered Enbridge to do more cleanup of the river (though that’s plenty frightening). Equally disturbing is that we have been told the very same thing on more than a few occasions by the offices of Michigan elected officials, officials who, evidently, are all too willing to swallow whatever spoonfuls of sweet goo Enbridge serves up.
If you’d like to let Monaco know that he might want to try a new path, one that faces the truth about Marshall and attempts to live up to his company’s stated corporate values, the folks over at Forest Ethics have prepared a letter that you can send to him. And if you’d like to let your state senators and representatives know that they might want to be a little skeptical about what Enbridge tells them, please contact them. And feel free to include some links from this blog.