As country after country abandons, curtails or reneges on
once-generous support for renewable energy, Europe is beginning to realise that
its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to
hard economic realities.
Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green
energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely
self-inflicted.
The mainstream media, which used to encourage the
renewables push enthusiastically, is beginning to sober up too…….Today,
European media is full of news and commentary about the problems of an
ill-conceived strategy that is becoming increasingly shaky and divisive…..138
articles about renewables published during July last year in the five most
widely circulated British national newspapers: The Sun, The Times, The Daily
Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, which enjoy a combined daily
circulation of about 6.5 million…….More than 51 per cent of the 138 articles
analysed were either negative or very negative toward the industry.”
More than 80 per cent of the articles appeared in
broadsheet titles The Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, the report
says, “but 55 per cent of these articles were either negative or very negative
about the industry”.
EU members states have spent about €600 billion ($882bn)
on renewable energy projects since 2005, according to Bloomberg New Energy
Finance. Germany’s green energy transition alone may cost consumers up to €1
trillion by 2030, the German government recently warned…..To Read More…..
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