Posted on 06/25/2020 12:57:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Amazon has purchased the naming rights to Seattle's KeyArena, which will now be known as Climate Pledge Arena.
The arena, which is currently under redevelopment, is set to be the home of an unnamed Seattle-based NHL team which is planning to join the league for the 2021-2022 season.
Amazon's announcement on Instagram highlighted the company's commitment to sustainability: it plans for the arena to produce zero waste and heavily reduce its current use of plastics, and will also be powered by renewable energy as it seeks to eliminate its carbon footprint.
"It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, generate zero waste from operations and events, and use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in the Instagram post.
Tod Leiweike, CEO of NHL Seattle, told The Seattle Times that his organization was excited for the chance to feature sustainability in the arena, which he said was a goal of the team before Amazon's investment.
“I never dreamed that we would have this type of platform,” he told the Times.
Funny, I can’t remember what I ate yesterday, but I remember SNL skits I hadn’t seen in 40 years.
Before I retired I had to fly to Seattle from the East Coast and back a lot.
It was just awful—the flights seemed to last forever.
I must be suffering from PTSD or something, because I haven’t been willing to get on an airplane since I retired.
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So they are not going to run airconditioning or heating and wont have any lights on ??
Not doing that ?? Then still ‘part of the problem’ ... and are hypocrites.
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As my dad would often say, “You are indeed a veritable cesspool of knowledge my friend”.
Please rise for the National Anthem. We the Seattle Antifas Hockey Club have done away with the counter-revolutionary “Star Spangled Banner”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8EMx7Y16Vo
“reclaimed rainwater” He’s an idiot. All rainwater is reclaimed through groundwater, river, streams to the lakes and oceans, evaporation into the atmosphere and then, guess what, it rains.
Climate Pledge. Is that a furniture cleaner like Lemon Pledge?
I’ll call it the “Lemon-Scented Pledge Arena”
Is that in CHAZ? The land of skittles and unicorns.
FTA: It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, generate zero waste from operations and events, and use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in the Instagram post.
That statement is just a big lie.
If they think they can cool that much ice with solar and wind energy, then yes they will be playing on half melted ice.
Seattle uses a lot of hydroelectric. Not sure how they will make sure all the electrons are coming from the dams though. And don’t let the greenies know or they will say the stadium is killing all the salmon.
BTW - how come salmon is endangered, but it is still served in Seattle restaurants??
The going rate for these things is hovering around a billion these days. The new Texas Rangers dome is 1.2 billion.
Clown world.
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