multinational companies on old&new colonial structures with local beneficiaries --- I totally share Souhila's remark that the energy situation is "strange". Once more I come up with the example of Myanmar: a not-landlocked country with both fossil (oil and gas worth 140x their consumption) and renewable energy (hydro- and solar power) as well as rare earth for technology. Despite this it's still -and now even worse, on a scary downward trend- one of the countries with unreliable and relatively expensive energy. Power cuts are daily experience. The reasons are complex and I don't understand everything, but what depresses me, is that without "help" from outside, incl the western world it would not be possible to have such a unbalance.

Source author: Katharina Beyer katharina.beyer@etu.unige.ch