Mexico's wind turbines seeping oil

Washington

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.