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Saturday, January 25, 2014

EU Dumps Green Energy Mandates, Embraces Fracking

Obama is now more left-wing and reactionary on energy productivity than the European Union.

The EU’s reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking — jeopardizing Germany’s touted energy revolution in the process.

At the request of Commission President José Manuel Barroso, EU member states are no longer to receive specific guidelines for the development ofrenewable energy. The stated aim of increasing the share of green energy across the EU to up to 27 percent will hold. But how seriously countries tackle this project will no longer be regulated within the plan. As of 2020 at the latest — when the current commitment to further increase the share of green energy expires — climate protection in the EU will apparently be pursued on a voluntary basis.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

no fracking. watch gasland parts 1 and 2 to see what the government and the rest of the criminals are hiding from us.