A future world energy scenario - a comment by Edmilson dos Santos
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in Economic and Commercial Context for Oil, Gas and Energy Law
Introduction
I still want to make a special comment on Mr Longmuir's piece. However, before doing so, let me take Professor Pritchard's contribution and add some aspects regarding his comment on 'Brazil's excessive reliance on a single energy form, say hydro-dependence, which may have exposed the country to excessive energy vulnerability in a dry period - 2001'. I believe the international community has developed a conviction that Brazil has exagerated its reliance on hydro. Well, for a country that controls about 18 per cent of total fresh water resource in the planet, such a reliance may ...