Squeezed in between some not so fair and balanced media reports, about Climate Summit in Durban and Christmas, Minister Martin Ferguson released his long awaited Draft Energy White Paper. It’s 396 pages, a lot to digest.

Count of keywords can always give you some indication about the flavour of any document. The scores are intiguing:

gas = 724, carbon = 371, emissions = 196, coal = 224

solar = 116, solar thermal = 0, photo voltaic = 16

geothermal = 49, nuclear = 34, biofuel = 17