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Amazon to name Seattle sports venue 'Climate Pledge Arena'
The Hill ^ | - 06/25/20 03:09 PM EDT | By John Bowden

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.


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Liberalism IS a MENTAL DISEASE.........................
1 posted on 06/25/2020 12:57:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
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So no more big energy to be used there? Only wind and solar produced power? Fidiots!


2 posted on 06/25/2020 12:59:35 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

I vote for “CHOP House”


3 posted on 06/25/2020 1:00:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

So how does everyone get there? How is the plumbing going to work?

Most important of all - what makes them think anyone will support a team in Seattle that will be over 90% Caucasian?


4 posted on 06/25/2020 1:01:02 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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“is set to be the home of an unnamed Seattle-based NHL team”

Seattle Justice Warriors


5 posted on 06/25/2020 1:01:07 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: Red Badger

I love The Babylon Bee. They almost got me on this one.


6 posted on 06/25/2020 1:01:49 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Red Badger

So there is NO energy used besides “renewable”?

None?

Also, must be exciting to say “I’m going to the climate pledge arena with my friends!!

Or “I can’t wait to get to the VAGINA MONOLOGUES ARENA to see my team!!”

Or “Tonight my team is playing at the WE’RE GAY AND WE’RE HERE TO STAY stadium!!”

Or “I just got tickets to see my team at the BLACK LIVES MATTER CRACKAS DON’T venue!!”


7 posted on 06/25/2020 1:01:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: Red Badger

total mass psychosis grips the land...


8 posted on 06/25/2020 1:02:21 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: rktman

Players will ditch jets and ride bicycles to Seattle?


9 posted on 06/25/2020 1:02:21 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: decal

No need for plumbing. Just poop in the grass.


10 posted on 06/25/2020 1:02:27 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: Red Badger

Betcha that building costs 100 times more than a typical one. Maintenance cost will be expensive too. Really sad waste of money.


11 posted on 06/25/2020 1:03:28 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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Will the hockey team be playing on a half melted rink to virtue signal the melting ice cap?


12 posted on 06/25/2020 1:03:56 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger

So then that begs the question, how does Amazon benefit from reduced oil usage?

People now would be more dependent on Amazon deliveries as they can’t drive to the store.


13 posted on 06/25/2020 1:04:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

Yeah the calcs on that will work out about the same as they do for the Perpetual Motion Machine.


14 posted on 06/25/2020 1:04:07 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Red Badger

Name needs a tag line: “All in for globalism!!”


15 posted on 06/25/2020 1:04:53 PM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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I think I know what Reg Dunlop would say about this...

".....faster than you can say 'Jack Robinson'!"

16 posted on 06/25/2020 1:05:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

The good news is that the visiting hockey teams will travel there by horseback.

It is a great day indeed!


17 posted on 06/25/2020 1:05:25 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Texas Eagle

The naming rights for Heinz Field and PNC Park both expire next year. I shudder to think what we’ll end up with.


18 posted on 06/25/2020 1:05:38 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: FewsOrange

Perfect!


19 posted on 06/25/2020 1:06:12 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Red Badger

So gay


20 posted on 06/25/2020 1:06:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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