EU Abandons Renewable Energy Demands Why? Well, any time radicals find a sympathetic ear they press for too much. Renewable energy, for example, could not be hydroelectric power according to the environmental radicals in Europe because dams displace people from their homes. Wood must be burnt so that is bad too. If the only source of 'renewable energy' becomes solar or wind, you have a real problem. In California taxpayers have wasted $15 billion in tax revenue that can never be recovered because of the junk science propogated by radicals. Poor countries are unable to bear that kind of cost and the EU was unwilling to underwrite it alone. This article says the article is a 'personal rebuff' for Tony Blair. More likely he only proposed this to appease the Greens who voted for him. No one can show a shred of evidence where this has ever been anything but a monetary sinkhole. Article Here