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IEA slams Spain over coal subsidies for power sector

ENDS Europe
Wednesday 28 October 2009

The Spanish government's planned subsidies for coal-fired electricity generation would "distort the market and push up emissions in contradiction with Kyoto," the International Energy Agency's chief economist Fatih Birol warned on Tuesday.

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