Guest post by David Middleton
ENERGY NEWS
Lawmakers Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking
Kevin Mooney / @KevinMooneyDC / July 10, 2017
Forget about allegations of Russian interference in U.S. presidential elections for a moment, or even “collusion” between Russian officials and Trump campaign operatives.
The real action is in the European and U.S. energy markets, according to a letter from two Texas congressmen to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that details what they call “a covert anti-fracking campaign” with “little or no paper trail.”
The Daily Signal obtained a copy of the June 29 letter to Mnuchin from Reps. Lamar Smith and Randy Weber, both Republicans who chair energy-related House panels. (See the full letter below.)
Smith and Weber quote sources saying the Russian government has been colluding with environmental groups to circulate “disinformation” and “propaganda” aimed at undermining hydraulic fracturing. Commonly called fracking, the process makes it possible to access natural gas deposits.
The sources include a former secretary-general of NATO, who is quoted by the GOP congressmen as saying:
Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called nongovernmental organizations—environmental organizations working against shale gas—to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas.
This anti-fracking campaign seizes upon environmental issues and health concerns that could be used to constrain U.S. drilling and fracking exercises, the letter explains.
Gazprom, a large Russian oil company, stands to benefit if Russian-funded environmental activism results in reduced levels of fracking and natural gas production in the United States, Smith and Weber tell Mnuchin.
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If Donald Trump Jr. committed Treason by talking to a Russian lawyer about an adoption program [/Sarc]… Wouldn’t actual collusion with the Russians to undermine US energy production rise to at least the level of a minor offense?
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Germinio, you are clearly unaware of the financial leverage Russia exerts in Europe, because of their role as monopolistic supplier of natural gas to the entire continent.
UK buys its gas from Norway and Qatar
But your point is well made. Russia is firmly behind a lot of Green idiocy, to ensure that their gas is not challenged by coal or nuclear.
Just as Al Gore was for the same reasons.
In fact I would not be surprised if the Russians were not in cahoots with the Democrats and said ‘lets invite Trumps son to a bait and switch and if dad gets elected we can use it to bring him down’.
The Desperation of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New York Time and the Washington Post!
Let’s hope that in the darkest hour of their desperation they will commit suicide by leaping from their lofty Ivy Tower offices, smashing their bodies upon the hard and unforgiving pavement below.
Let’s encourage them!
Replace “pavement” with “reality”.
The hard-left progressive-democrat-media blok are so obsessed with attacking Trump, in contempt of all the Americans who voted for him, that they are blissfully ignorant of how obvious it is to everyone outside their twisted circle that they have abandoned themselves to unrestrained anti-Russian racism. They are a cabal or total racists who would make Hit1er proud. They don’t care who knows that they consider Russians as untermenschen. Not surprising that they find common cause with the 4th Reich EU.
Actually Saudi Arabia is the Daddy Warbucks of the environazi movement. Russia is a piker in comparison.
Trump’s statements that he would unleash the US fossil fuel industries would have been the Russians worst nightmare.
The idea that they would collude to elect him rather that “Reset” Clinton is absurd.
Obama Admin relations with Russia became strained when Barri proved to be incapable of stopping the expansion of NG production and use AND export. The Syria mess came well after Barri and his anti-energy&technology cossacks dropped that particular ball, then Barri started making mewling sounds about allowing LPG/NG exports to go forward.
Aaron? Trump is kicking the leftist/globalist cabal in its fecal stained teeth and laughing at them, all the while rope-A-doping the fake news crowd. Is this why you are upset? You wanted Killery in the WH so all this anti-American crap could continue? Too bad, so sad, it ain’t.
Was that addressed at me? Is there anything in the above post that indicates I would have preferred Hillary?
No, bottom half is to Aaron. I saw his comment while typing the top half and just did as a single post. Got the other computer running a print job so splitting attention. Hillary as SecState was much friendlier to further Russia dealings than others in Barri’s Admin, especially after Putin snubbed Barri&Wife a couple of times. He is rather thin skinned, as is she. Hillary just takes a snub in stride and keeps pushing forward to personal profit, she secured Willie Jeff those sweet Russia speaking gigs after getting the high hat a couple of times.
Russia will use disinformation to forward all objectives. One objective might be to impede US energy independence. A much higher priority objective was to install an isolationist President who had no knowledge of, interest in, or patience for foreign policy and who could be easily outmaneuvered, manipulated, duped, and coerced.
Yet another reason why they wouldn’t support Trump, since he isn’t any of the things you listed above.
And this just a few years after Russia nailed Greenpeace. Politics do make strange bedfellows.
They only nailed Greenpeace in so much as Greenpeace over stepped it’s bounds and became an annoyance to the Russians.
Never contested the why, just stated the fact. They will nail them again when GP decides to focus on them again. As I said, politics do make strange bedfellows.
So Josh Fox should be receiving a letter from the F.B.I soon? Or is he merely as stupid as he is ignorant?
Time for a ‘Crazy Ivan’ or ‘Yankee Doodle’ to ‘clear his baffles’?