Mexico's wind turbines seeping oil
The leaks, limited and probably posing no immediate health risk, are stirring up all kinds of local opposition
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WIND turbines were planted along a strip of Mexico's southern coast to make the country's power industry cleaner. Now they're spilling oil.
In the town of Juchitan last month, a clean-up was under way around a generator owned by Electricite de France (EDF). Workers wearing goggles and masks were scrubbing off a copper-coloured lubricant that dripped down from the turbine. They'd wrapped cloth around its base, to absorb further leakage, and stuffed contaminated soil and stones into plastic trash bags.
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