“Nothing more than a redistribution of wealth to already very wealthy clans in the Middle East and Russia”, he calls it.
“Instead of investing millions of euros in the development of renewable technologies and the creation of thousands of new European jobs, we choose to spend it on fossil-fuel imports from politically risky regions,” the EWEA chief executive tells Recharge.
As fears grow over the energy implications of Moscow’s confrontation with Ukraine, Becker’s call for the EU to loosen its dependence on Russian fossil fuel could hardly be more timely.
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