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Poland's Solidarity shipyard turns to wind turbinesWarsaw (AFP) Nov 18, 2010 Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard, the 1980 birthplace of the Solidarity trade union led by freedom icon Lech Walesa that toppled communism in 1989, started work on making wind turbines on Thursday. Initial plans call for a hundred turbines to be produced there annually, a figure which could be increased to 200 within in two years, Gdansk Shipyard chairman Andrzej Stoklosa said, quoted by the Polish PAP news agency. Stoklosa said the yard hopes to become Europe's leading wind-turbine manufacture ... read more |
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