Shell is selling every solar farm it owns in the Netherlands. The five sites, plus a combined wind and solar park at Pottendijk near Emmen, are going to the French oil company TotalEnergies. The deal covers all of Shell’s wind and solar projects on land across Europe (its offshore windfarms are not included) and the company will not disclose what it is being paid. The Dutch sites can produce up to 254 megawatts between them, enough to power tens of...
One day in the future they will really tear the wires from the wall to increase quarterly profit and The Economist will praise this move
That’s basically neoliberalism: infrastructure, education, healthcare, clean water, all of that costs money. Just sell it off.
Yes as metaphore of social costs it indeed is and always was, but i meant it completely literally.