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There is interestingly a lot more to this. The German energy 'transition' is called *Energiewende* and was voted into being in 2010. However, the origin of this goes back to the reign of SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his Green Party Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor, Joschka Fischer. During their office tenure, they both supported the massive new gas pipeline expansions for Gazprom and the rival Turkish consortium running a similar line from the Caspian. Schröder lobbied heavily for the projects from Gazprom, and Fischer for the Turkish project. ince Germany did need to import this gas and plans for dozens of gas turbines were being organized (all of which were built) with an eye toward their wind and solar power development (which was only just getting underway then). The controversy arises is that when both Schröder and Fisher left office they immediately went to work for the two, now competing, gas line projects. Schröder's salary topped 200,000 Euros per year. What was the reference to Jill Stein on the pipeline issue about? David _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
