The risks of rent-seeking: What kind of future do we want for our industry and energy?
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Protesters against the rise of rent prices in #Lebanon on April 8, 2014. Large poster reads :"Free us from the new rent laws." (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Protesters against the rise of rent prices in Lebanon on April 8, 2014. Large poster reads :"Free us from the new rent laws." (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
I am not debating the issue of whether or not to extract #Oil, except to warn against wrongly believing hydrocarbons are a panacea for all ills. On the contrary, as many experts have warned, if oil is dealt with as a silver bullet, it could destroy what is left of our productive economic activity.
Alain Tabourian
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