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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Sub-Saharan dilemma: Food vs. fuel or radioactive waste?

Or both? In Senegal, fossil fuel shortages are forcing government leaders to explore every option.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:43 PM

    Sounds like an IMF boondoggle to bankrupt Senegal

    I don't know the details of the reactor but it sounds very suspicious.

    Coal is the cheapest fuel , and will be well into the future. Uranium is already skyrocketing in price. suspicious. (I hate coal but this a poor country)

    Linking the country with power lines is very expensive. suspicious

    Indeed it sounds like the work of an economic hitman, whereby a country is lured into massive debt then forced into restructuring its laws and governmeent spending to suit the creditors. Classic neoliberal colonialism.

    Read : Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

    —mmckinl Read mmckinl's other letters

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