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Opinion:

¶ “A green path to industrialisation” • At recent economic forums in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, N’Djamena in Chad, Rabat in Morocco, Abuja in Nigeria, even New York in the United States, and elsewhere, Africa’s experts have been expressing their support for green industrialization, with careful use of the Earth’s resources. [The New Times]

Wind turbines in Mahe, Seychelles. / Internet photo.

¶ “EPE scam to avoid renewable energy requirements” • The most efficient new natural gas power plant costs 7.5¢/kWh over its lifetime. Solar power is routinely offered for long-term purchase power agreements at 4¢/kWh and falling. Wind power contracts are approaching 3¢/kWh. But El Paso Electric builds gas plants. [Las Cruces Sun-News]

¶ “Britain’s vast national gamble on wind power may yet pay off” • Wind power has few friends on the political Right. No other industry elicits such protest from the conservative…