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Chill breeze of politics stills Australian renewables
2013-05-27 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On a line of low hills standing sentinel beside a dry lake bed near Australia's capital, giant turbines turning slowly in a chill winter breeze give no hint of a multi-billion-dollar storm building around renewable energy. Infigen Energy's Capital Windfarm, built five years ago, was a vanguard for wind power as Australia sought to wean itself from cheap fossil-fuel power in the face of climate shift blamed in part for Lake George's transformation to a vast plain. But big plans to expand the...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical