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Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

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This has led to an electricity crisis that can only be staunched by cutting domestic production along with exports to Europe, Crimea, and Belarus—or worse, getting more imports from Russia. The Ukrainian military’s showdown with separatists in the industrial east has forced coal mines to severely cut production or close down entirely.

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Biofuels to help clean up Chernobyl land

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The Belarus government has teamed up with Irish firm Greenfield to build one of Europe’s largest bioethanol plants which would convert crops grown on contaminated land into fuel. According to online resource, the Environmental Data [.]. Tags: Biofuels Belarus bio-ethanol biofuel Chernobyl crop Edie Greenfield plant.

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