Finland report: Political schism over energy path
FINLAND: A split has surfaced within Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's coalition government over the country's future energy mix. At stake is whether the Centre Party's ambitious renewable energy programme can withstand pressure from an initiative by the conservative National Coalition Party (NCP) to build three nuclear reactors. Finland targets 2GW of wind capacity by 2020, but some wind proponents worry that political support for nuclear energy threatens that for wind.
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