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| Subject: Italian statists' perverse incentives: Mafia mobsters go green to get their dirty hands on wind farm grants Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:10 am | |
| Sicily: Rising above the sun-scorched countryside, looking out over hilltop villages and vineyards, Italy's wind farms - promising a clean, green future - have acquired a dirtier whiff. They are the latest industry to be infiltrated by the country's mobsters.
Attracted by the prospect of generous grants to boost the use of alternative energies, the so-called ''eco Mafia'' has begun fraudulently creaming off millions of euros from the government and the European Union.
Nowhere has the industry's reputation become more tarnished than Sicily, where turbines dot the horizon in such Mafia strongholds as Corleone, the setting for the Godfather films.
ANCAPS: ANARCHO-CAPITALISTS |
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