Points for/against a country’s energy development should be restricted to its natural resources.
• Depends on fossil fuel availability
• Depends on climate/geography for renewables (HEP/wind/solar/bagasse)
• Awareness of government policy – willingness to explore/subsidise
• Desire to be self-sufficient
• Expensive developmental costs – may be cheaper to import
• Need to diversify
• New infrastructure (road networks)
• Possibility of nuclear energy
• Few natural resources
• Exploitation of resources by other countries (e.g. China ‘plundering’ Africa)
• Examples are required
• Better responses require a focus on ‘realistic’ throughout the response
