The Russian president noted there was a lot of ‘noise’ about alternative energy in the EU, but now it is going back to coal
The West made a lot of fuss about alternative energy sources before eventually going back to fossil fuels, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
Putin made his remark during a meeting with the winners of the ‘Leaders of Russia’ contest.
“Our colleagues in Western countries were making a lot of noise about the environment and limiting emissions and so on. Now they are switching to coal generation,” said the president.
He noted that many European countries have historically had much higher coal generation than Russia, and now they will have even more of it.