There is a huge need for more renewable energy, but just because it comes from the wind or the sun, it doesn’t mean there is no environmental or community cost. Indigenous communities in southern Mexico complain that wind farms aren’t paying them for use of their land, and the windmills themselves drop oil and metal parts. Reporter Michael Fox visits the latest wind farm to open in Mexico.
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