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...kept driving for greater energy efficiency and a more diversified energy supply. The Danish parliament raised taxes on energy to encourage conservation and established subsidies and standards to support more efficient buildings. "It all started out without any regard for the climate or the environment," says Svend Auken, the former head of Denmark's opposition Social Democrat party and the architect of the country's environmental policies in the 1990s. "But today there's a consensus that we need to build out renewable power...
...Starting with 60 employees after a bankruptcy filing in 1986, the company now employs 5,000 people, had 2001 revenues of $1.1 billion and a profit of $112 million. "Once considered an alternative energy, today wind power is a mainstream, environmentally friendly supplement to other sources of energy," says Svend Sigaard, managing director of Vestas. Sigaard says the future is likely to see more offshore wind farms like the one his company is building at Horns Rev. With its high population density Denmark is running out of room on land. Plus, offshore farms have the advantage of being...
Canucks are a tricky sort. Perhaps you’re better off dealing with real men, like Norwegian Svend Karlsen, the reigning world’s strongest...
...ambassador's welcome in Canada, however, has not been wholehearted. Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt said he was "furious" that bureaucrats had decided to accept Saddam's ex-defender without consulting government ministers. Complained Svend Robinson of the opposition New Democratic Party: "This makes us look like a dumping ground...
Last week 3.9 million voters gave a characteristically vague answer. Though Schluter's center-right four-party minority coalition emerged with an unchanged bloc of 70 seats in the 179-member Folketing, he resigned as Prime Minister. Social Democrat Svend Jakobsen, the Speaker of Parliament, was entrusted by Queen Margrethe with the task of finding a government alignment that could win majority support. Schluter was confident that Jakobsen would fail and he would be reappointed...