Eco-Blowback: Mutiny in the Land of Wind Turbines

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Series Details 12.07.13
Publication Date 12/07/2013
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Germany plans to build 60,000 new wind turbines - in forests, in the foothills of the Alps and even in protected environmental areas. But local residents are up in arms, costs are skyrocketing and Germany's determination to phase out nuclear power is in danger. Major feature.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/wind-energy-encounters-problems-and-resistance-in-germany-a-910816.html
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ESO: Background information: Germany’s energy reform. Troubled turn http://www.europeansources.info/record/germanys-energy-reform-troubled-turn/
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16.07.13: ‘Energy industry wants to suspend power stations’ (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/3973441-energy-industry-wants-suspend-power-stations
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Der Spiegel, 02.09.13: Germans pay dearly for ‘energy transformation’ (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4106491-germans-pay-dearly-energy-transformation

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