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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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East Timor president pushes back on environmental criticism

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Give our country $100 billion — or stop lecturing us about making money from fossil fuels.

That was the message East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta had Wednesday for those raising environmental concerns about his nation's proposal to build a new gas-processing plant.

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