Premier Matteo Renzi on Tuesday
rejected accusations his administration sold out to oil industry
lobbies. "We believe coal-powered plants need to go," he told
the Senate in reply to two no-confidence motions from
center-right parties over an oil industry probe. "We shut two of
them down, we announced a third is being shut down, and we put a
stop to two more that were switching from oil to coal - this
administration has blocked five power plants without losing a
single job". The center-left premier also denied accusations his
government is against clean energy. "We (Italy) is a leader in
the renewable energy sector and we will be able to continue
being the leaders on the path to our 2020-2030 targets," Renzi
said.
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