EUROPE ASKS WTO TO INSIST ON GLOBAL FREE MARKETS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
January 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is establishing a disputes panel to rule on whether feed-in tariff systems can limit their subsidies to electricity produced by locally-made technology - or whether such conditions break global commerce rules. That is the view of the European Union (EU), which has brought this case against Canada. In the dock is the feed-in tariff system of Ontario, the country's industrial heartland: the EU argues in documents at the WTO that to benefit from Ontario's green tariff subsidy, utilities must use "equipment ...
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