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"The Dutch government will renew subsidies for green energy next year but only for producers that can prove their energy is really green and does not deprive people of food."
- Jacqueline Cramer, the Environment Minister of Netherlands, "Not only should global economies end energy subsidies which encourage excessive use of energy, they should also agree on a common higher price for energy." - Lawrence H Summers, Former US Treasury Secretary, in April, 2007. "Encouraging reforms of subsidies that have considerable negative effects on the environment and are incompatible with sustainable development, inter alia by establishing a list of criteria allowing such environmentally negative subsidies to be recorded, with a view to gradually eliminating them." - An action suggested in the Sixth Environment Action Program , in July, 2002. Introduction
A reduction in oil subsidies was expected to lead to an increase in the domestic price of oil, forcing the government to increase oil imports.
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"Dutch Government to Renew Green Energy Subsidies in 2008," www.planetark.com,
May 7, 2007. |
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