Posted on 07/14/2014 3:09:39 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
According to NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen, Russia’s myriad intelligence agencies, which now include the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the military intelligence directorate, or GRU, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO) are working directly with European environmental groups to fund anti-fracking campaigns.
Putin is doing this to slow the spread of the U.S. shale revolution across the Atlantic so Russia can hold on to its monopoly of the European natural gas market.
Europe’s energy insecurity – its dependence on Russian gas – has proven to be Putin’s favorite tool of geopolitical blackmail. Until recently, Europe has had little choice but to put up with Putin’s shenanigans, such as turning off the flow of gas through Ukraine in the dead of winter following contract disputes. But the balance of energy power is moving away from petro dictators like Putin, thanks to fracking and surging U.S. production of oil and natural gas from shale.
Europeans see U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and U.S. shale expertise as the energy supply alternatives they desperately need. Already, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved seven LNG export terminals. And, shale deposits that have made the United States the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas also lie beneath much of Europe.
The Russians may try to slow the development of Europe’s shale resources, but fracking technology cannot be stopped. Shale exploration has begun in Poland and Great Britain; deals with U.S. energy companies have been signed by several eastern European nations, including Lithuania and Romania. So, while it may not happen overnight, Russia’s grip on Europe’s energy supply is beginning to loosen.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Yes, the Russians are on a new disinformation campaign against the West. This is just like the stories about AIDS, the Pershing missile, Star Wars, and many others that were planted in the foreign press, especially with Indian newspapers for spreading.
This new campaign is to stop the Europeans from using fracking to get their own oil and thus making them dependent on Russia.
Correction: This new campaign is to stop the Europeans from using fracking to get their own oil and thus keeping them dependent on Russia.
Similar anti-fracking propaganda in the U.S. is to keep us sending huge amounts to money to the Muslim oil producers.
They have always been useful idiots. The end of the Soviet Union then turned them into useless idiots which must have made them very unhappy. Now their lives have meaning again.
Topic is from 7/14/2014, thanks Tailgunner Joe.
> Russia’s myriad intelligence agencies, which now include the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the military intelligence directorate, or GRU, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO) are working directly with European environmental groups to fund anti-fracking campaigns.
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