(aegap - Cotonou is the name of the ACP-EU agreement, encompassing far more than environmental issues). It's certain that the EU would support this sort of venture but it's open to abuse.
I know that in "my" part of Spain, there are massive windfarms and that the EU pays generously to farmers and landowners to place turbines on their land, but it's got out of hand and they break the rules on minimum distance from houses, with no penalties. Tarifa, a small city of under 20,000 inhabitants, is powered entirely by windpower. It is also said to be the town with the highest suicide rate in Spain, due to the relentless winds... but that's beside the point.
The point being, there's good and there's bad. The venture in Las Galeras is a start, but if in Spain it gets abused, it's likely to be at least as bad in the DR.
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