{"id":6,"date":"2009-12-22T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2009\/12\/22\/green-energy-as-brought-to-you-by-crony-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:43:36","slug":"green-energy-as-brought-to-you-by-crony-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/green-energy-as-brought-to-you-by-crony-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Energy, as Brought to You by Crony Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Energy, as Brought to You by Crony Capitalism<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Writing in <\/span><\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>, Doreen Carvagal raises the alarm about how the “freewheeling approach of the fast-evolving energy industry is luring a rogue\u2019s gallery of corrupt poli<\/span>ticians and entrepreneurs trying to literally create money out of thin air.” Furthermore, Andrew Campanelli, a forensics investigator for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in New York, states: \u201cIn a down economy, individuals might be more inclined to ne<\/span>ed more cash. They might look at green energy as a mechanism to use ill-gotten funds.\u201d <\/p>\n

Eco-warrior Ashok Subron and crusader Jack Bizlall have time and again exposed the shady character of similar accords with hardly any echo elsewhere – with the notable exception of the <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Mauritius Times<\/span><\/span><\/em>, Deepa Bhookhun and Nicholas Rainer of <\/span><\/span>l\u2019express<\/span><\/span><\/em> and a few others. We are being sold scaremongering for instant gratification. No wonder fiscal incentives on electric cars, photovoltaics and so on are so mired in trivialities and no coherent strategy is on offer. Ethanol production, solar energy systems and wind farms are glaring examples of eco-bandwagonning where we might well end up paying, yet again, a higher price dictated by rent seekers.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Samad Ramoly<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green Energy, as Brought to You by Crony Capitalism \u00a0 Writing in New York Times, Doreen Carvagal raises the alarm about how the “freewheeling approach of the fast-evolving energy industry is luring a rogue\u2019s gallery of corrupt politicians and entrepreneurs trying to literally create money out of thin air.” Furthermore, Andrew Campanelli, a forensics investigator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}