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Renewable energy: The green pound

economist.com
Nov. 13, 2008
Greenery may create jobs—but not the ones its boosters thinkIT HAS been a confusing time for Britain’s environmentalists. Dismay greeted reports on November 6th that BP, an oil firm, was ditching plans to build a wind farm at the Isle of Grain, a blowy expanse of...
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