Just how green are Germany’s values?

Civitas, 10 June 2013

By David Conway, visiting senior research fellow at Civitas

Germany’s renewables energy sector is busy cleaning up these days, commercially-speaking that is, not in terms of environmental impact. So far as that goes, Germany’s much vaunted green revolution has been nothing short of disastrous.

As its heavily subsidized wind-farms and solar panels mushroom, so Germany’s ancient forests are increasingly being felled to make way for the open mining of lignite (brown coal) of which Germany has copious reserves beneath its soil and which is the most unhealthy fossil fuel of all…

The rest of David Conway’s post can be read at the Library of Law and Liberty website.