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Clean energy sources lose ground in Brazil
Brazil likes to brag about its clean energy matrix. But while the use of renewable sources is much more prevalent in Brazil than elsewhere in the world (89 percent against a world average of 28 percent, according to government data), the country has progressively relied more heavily on “dirty” energy sources.
- The findings stem from a study by Fiemg, the federation of industries in the state of Minas Gerais, which blames the trend on a choice to abandon new hydroelectric power plant projects.
- Fiemg chairman Flávio Roscoe says hydroelectric plants were “unfairly demonized as if damaging to the environment.” He defends the construction of new projects as a way to guarantee continuous supply in the country.
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