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Deal amounts to an 'attractive greenwashing'
The deal had a familiar shape. One partner was a successful international consortium with deep pockets and manufacturing expertise, the other a backward jurisdiction so hungry for jobs that it had to pay the big company what amounts to a bribe to do the deal. The whole thing was arranged directly with the jurisdiction's leader without the bother of competition.
February 3, 2010
by Randall Denley
in The Ottawa Citizen
The deal had a familiar shape. One partner was a successful international consortium with deep pockets and manufacturing expertise, the other a backward jurisdiction so hungry for jobs that it had to pay the big company what amounts to a bribe to do the deal. The whole thing was arranged directly with the jurisdiction's leader without the bother of competition. It's the kind of deal one might expect in the Third World, except that it was Ontario on the Third World side of the equation.
The $7-billion "green energy" deal that Premier Dalton McGuinty made with South Korean corporation Samsung... [continue via Web link]
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