How Russia is rousing a sleeping energy bear

The Globe And Mail (Canada) ^ | March 25, 2014 | SHAWN MCCARTHY

[Jim Robinson]

Russia’s aggressiveness in Ukraine is proving a boon to North American energy producers looking for greater export opportunities.

Whether for natural gas projects in the United States or for oil pipelines in Canada, the West’s confrontation with energy powerhouse Russia has refocused North American political debates – including the controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – on the need for global energy security.

Russia’s aggressiveness in Ukraine is proving a boon to North American energy producers looking for greater export opportunities.

Whether for natural gas projects in the United States or for oil pipelines in Canada, the West’s confrontation with energy powerhouse Russia has refocused North American political debates – including the controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – on the need for global energy security.

The United States is poised to re-establish its position as a major energy producer; its crude production is forecast to lead the world by 2017...

[Pontiac]

Probably one of the best places to start, particularly for folks on FR is donations to their Alma-mater.

Let those people that call and write you for donations that you are not pleased with the Liberal policies, social engineering and Left Wing professors that the university is employing.

Tell them that no further donations should be expected until you get assurances from the university president that these things will be changed and that you see what changes are planed in writing under the president’s letter head with his signature.

[SJackson]

And the administration will do everything in their power to stop it.

[dead]

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but if he were president, his reaction in the energy sector would have made these moves by Putin extremely costly to Russia for generations.

But Obama won, so it's all gravy for the Pooty Poot.

[American Constitutionalist]

And it has come sooner than the naysayers told us back then.... “ why bother ? it’s going to take 10 years for that oil to come online “ .....