China is the world s biggest producer of wind turbines and solar panels, and the Winter Olympics is seen as an opportunity to showcase the country s green technologies as they seek global markets.
Beaten, forced off their land, cheated out of money and even falsely imprisoned farmers in China say they are paying a heavy price as authorities rush to deliver on ambitious pledges to ramp up national green energy output.
China has vowed that next year’s Winter Olympics are to be the first Games to be run entirely on wind and solar energy, and it has built scores of facilities to increase capacity but critics say that ordinary people are being exploited by “land grabs” in the process.
In a hamlet near Beijing, the Long family who say they have lost
Beaten, forced off their land, cheated out of money, and even falsely imprisoned farmers in China say they are paying a heavy price as authorities rush to deliver on ambitious pledges to ramp up n…
BAODING, China: Beaten, forced off their land, cheated out of money, and even falsely imprisoned farmers in China say they are paying a heavy price as authorities rush to deliver on ambitious pledges to ramp up national green energy output.
Beaten, forced off their land, cheated out of money, and even falsely imprisoned farmers in China say they are paying a heavy price as authorities rush to deliver on ambitious pledges to ramp up national green energy output.