Author Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The House Science Committee has released a report detailing how Russia has been attempting to sabotage US domestic fossil fuel production, to promote their own fossil fuel exports, by stirring up climate activist opposition to US domestic fossil fuel production.
Republicans Accuse Russia of Using Social Media to Roil U.S. Energy Policy
By Ari Natter and Alan Bjerga
2 March 2018, 01:25 GMT+10 Updated on 2 March 2018, 03:56 GMT+10
The same Russian operatives accused of manipulating the 2016 U.S. presidential election used inflammatory social media posts to disrupt U.S. energy policy, including inciting environmentalists to protest against pipeline projects, House Republicans said in a report released Thursday.
The report, released by the House Science Committee, said it found evidence Russian-sponsored agents used Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to suppress the research and development of fossil fuels and stymie efforts to expand the use of natural gas and fracking.
“This report reveals that Russian agents created and spread propaganda on U.S. social media platforms in an obvious attempt to influence the U.S. energy market,” Texas Representative Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said in a statement. “Russian agents attempted to manipulate Americans’ opinions about pipelines, fossil fuels, fracking and climate change.”
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According to the report, Hillary Clinton was fully aware of Russian efforts;
… Former Secretary of State and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with access to intelligence reports, made a private speech in 2014, according to documents from WikiLeaks, which included statements about the struggles of dealing with Russian-backed environmental groups. According to a media report, Secretary Clinton said the following: “We [the State Department and the U.S.] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.”
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To that end, the Kremlin is attempting to make, as Senator Cardin’s report states, “useful idiots” of unwitting environmental groups and activists in furtherance of its energy influence operations.33 Although this is not a new tactic in the Kremlin’s playbook, it has been adapted to account for modern technological advancements like the Internet and social media. Throughout history, the Kremlin has engaged and manipulated unwitting individuals to disseminate propaganda in furtherance of its global agenda.34 The Kremlin continues to employ this tactic, which has become substantially more effective with the proliferation of the Internet and social media. By leveraging the sincerely held views and beliefs of unwitting agents, the Kremlin is able to exploit polarized issues in American democracy to influence action in furtherance of its agenda.
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Read More: House Science Committee Report
The Bloomberg reporter contacted several people who appear skeptical of the claimed extent or aims of Russian propaganda efforts.
Fossil fuel exports account for around 16% of Russian GDP, 52% of government revenue and 70% of Russian exports, so it makes sense that Russian propaganda efforts would be focussed on protecting their one trick economy.
It’s not difficult to make “useful idiots” of environmental groups, since they are full of idiots.
I believe that many of the anti-fracking groups in the UK are also funded from Russia.
The difficulty is making them useful.
You don’t need to. That’s the beauty of the scheme. They are useful by standing on the way of workers.
It’s rather easy to herd cats if you have a laser pointer. Idiots aren’t much more difficult, it’s just that the laser pointer needs to project a flashier scarier image.
I noticed the main stream media has turned this around and claimed the Russians were supporting an anti-climate change view.
Most MSM outlets might as well register as agents of Pravda.
Well they’re either against fossil fuels or anti-climate change or whatever, but one thing we can be sure of is : the Russians did it.
Prava means “truth”. Izvestia means “news”. The russian joke was, there is no pravda in Izvestia, and no Izvestia in Pravda.
Sounds familiar?
Russia is stirring the pot with both spreading aggressive skeptism and supporting valve-turners.
Don’t you realise? Putin wants to spread disagreement and instability. He wants to break the EU. He wants to ruin western energy politics, but he also tries get as much instability as possible. Look what he does in Syrian war. Look what he did to Crimea. He’s a merciless ruler with an endless term in practice. Now Xi in China is taking the role model. Oh what fun.
Well if Putin wants to break the EU then he and I agree on at least one thing.
Did you see what the British actor Michael Cain said when asked about Brexit?
” I’m in favor of Brexit actually, because I’d rather be a poor master of my own fate than a rich servant of someone else’s.”
Brilliant!
My only disagreement with that statement is that you won’t be a rich servant of someone else’s fate. Under the EU, the only people who get rich are those who run the system, and their families.
Everyone else gets poorer.
Democratic and Republican presidents since Daddy Bush have all appointed environuts to top positions and funded CAGW “scientists”.
How do the billionaires that control both parties escape without egg on their faces now that the cooling is noticeable? Blame it on Putin.
Mark W:
I think what Caine meant, in the quote supplied by RAH, was that EVEN IF Britain will be poorer after exiting the EU, it is better to be poor and free than to be rich and enslaved. And not only do I agree with that sentiment, I would apply it to many other facets of politics. In fact, that theory informs my opinion on global warming alarmism in general. Though I don’t believe mankind is the major contributor to global warming, and don’t believe global warming (if it continues) is a “bad thing”, my ultimate position is that, EVEN IF global warming is caused by mankind, EVEN IF it continues, and EVEN IF it’s CATASTROPHIC, I would rather live through the catastrophe (or even die because of it) as a FREE MAN, than live as a slave to government under “ideal” (whatever that is) climate conditions.
They are funded by George Soros.
The Soviets/Russians have been making use of the same idiots for decades. All that has changed is the focus of their activities.
We need to start playing hardball with Russia. I don’t know what form that would be – but make it hurt. At the least, we could start by flooding the Ukraine with both offensive and defensive weapons, and the support to use them. Harass their Artic fleet to make it very expensive for them to stay active there. If Putin wants to make us bleed, shove it back in his face.
You are one crazy, crazy person.
Military responses to strategies of economic competition are a bit extreme, especially when you have a comparatively crappy fleet of polar-equipped vessels.
@PopPiasa, “crappy fleet of polar equipped vessels “…..as in crappy enough to rescue ships of fools…_
As a USA petroleum geologist/seismologist I worked overseas for almost 15 years; over 10 of which were in FSU [Former Soviet Union] countries; mostly in Russia and Ukraine.
In those work locations, it was knowledge accepted commonly by our “Soviets” colleagues that their boy Putin was doing all he could, financially and otherwise, to agitate and support the environmental whacko greenie Americans [and other Westerners minions] for ALL THINGS anti-fossil-fuels … particularly petroleum.
The Soviets always got a good chuckle that we USA folk, by our own citizens, were shooting ourselves in our collective feet.
“ ……by our “Soviets” colleagues that their boy Putin was doing all he could, financially and otherwise, to …… ”
Shur nuff, ….. just ask Bill and Hillary Clinton how many “tens-of-millions-of-dollars” that the Russians gave them? Then ask them what they promised to do for the Russians in return for those freely donated MILLION$?
And where did you get that, …….. “we USA folk”, …..ont I sure as ell am not a highly partisan Democrat lemming.
Rob Bradley -March 3, 2018 at 1:53 pm
And Rob B, …… please don’t ask for a “citation” for the following “citation” after you read it, …. iffen you bother to read it, that is.
Rob Bradley, …… Josephus pretty much EXACTLY described the “Clinton lovers” more than 2,000 years ago, to wit:
blockquote>“ Now I cannot but think, that the greatness of a kingdom, and its changes into prosperity, often becomes the occasion of mischief and of transgression to men, for so it usually happens, that the manners of subjects are corrupted at the same time with those of their governors, which subjects then lay aside their own sober way of living, as a reproof of their governor’s intemperate courses, and follow their wickedness, as if it were virtue, for it is not possible to show that men approve of the actions of their kings, unless they do the same actions with them.” (Flavius Josephus – 37- 100 AD)
Rob, as if “donations” to a foundation the recipient controls absolutely is not a benefit to the recipient.
Really?
sarc alert- You science guys don’t get it, do you? A mann of the world like Rob Bradley knows the score, use email that can disappear to instruct foreigners which foundation to “support”, then you can hide it from anybody- especially those pischers in the “Obama” administration, you know, the ones you “promised” not to?! Ha, they didn’t even check if Hillary had her fingers crossed! Rob Bradley gets it, so he’s ok if Trump sets up a CF and takes $ from Russians, Chinese, NoKo’s, no problem with Hillary’s new paradigm. Bet Rob Bradley will be onboard when Trump gets secret wiretap warrant on enviro groups and pols who support environment, because, you know, russian money and all. Please, Rob B., please waste lotsa time here, these science guys are soooo serious, they can use the laughs. Keep ’em comin’.
Once again, Rob is determined to play the fool.
There is no difference between giving to the Clinton foundation and giving to the Clintons, since the Clintons are the primary beneficiaries of the foundation.
Anyone else notice how offended little Rob gets whenever anyone dares to disagree with him.
Beyond that, I love the way Rob uses allegations that Trump is mis-using his foundation to prove that Hillary can’t be mis-using hers.
Rob B: And he can use the CF just as the Clintons used theirs, right? I’m just trying to establish the new boundry. You can demand of Trump what you demanded of Hillary. And you’re good with use of FISA court to tap the opposition. Got it.
Hey Bobby-boy! Thank you. It’s always reassuring to hear the opinions of an expert in these matters.
And since you appear to be such an expert on the Clinton Foundation, can you state that you are certain that the foundation’s books are in order? Also, can you confirm that the foundation’s financial statements have been audited properly and consistently in compliance with applicable laws and standards?
Many thanks for giving us the benefit of your knowledge, wisdom and witty little putdowns of people you disagree with.
Rob Bradley, …… now don’t you be forgettin what Josephus would have said about the “lovin n’ adorin” Hillary Fan Club members, to wit:
“ for so it usually happens, that the manners of subjects are corrupted at the same time with those of
their governorsHillary and Bill Clinton,”And Rob B, just what is it about this dastardly devious dishonest act of illegality that you don’t understand, to wit:
“Those donations weren’t initially disclosed — despite Hillary Clinton signing a memorandum of understanding ”
“Loving eyes never sees any evil”.
To Rob Bradley, who wanted a citation for “tens-of-millions-of-dollars”: http://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-clintons-russia-trump-688592
Newsweek is not a conservative rag. So they are quick to point out that the $145M went to their foundation. But I think you’re smart enough to figure out how that works. Foundations now-a-days buy influence.
When Hillary lost the election, the foundation was shut down.
You quoted Newsweek and I was stupid enough to follow the link. The site was fully plastered with scam advertisements. No adblock in myBad.
If the moral of the site is to take advertisement money from people who clearly and outrageously lie and decept to get suckers click and buy, how do I know the place is not at the same time trying to contaminate my computer with malware?
The old xkcd joke comes to my mind – meet girls at Low Earth Orbit – geolocation data in advertising.
What happened to the money when the foundation was closed? I guess Clinton’s friends did get a fair share?
@kaliforniakook. The Newsweek article concludes thus:-
Assessment: Yes, the foundation received money and Bill Clinton was paid to give a speech, but there’s no evidence the Clintons were paid by Russians to push through the uranium deal.
Now I know what I would have advised Newsweek to say in such an assessment, if I was one of their legal staff.
Ask me what my private opinion is, and I would say…_
Why the “surprise” here? Russian state operatives have been trying to influence policy here for years – now there are more methods available to do so. Ironically the claim that they “worked with” the Trump campaign is almost nonsensically false, but perhaps not for lack of trying. Hillary’s efforts to derail Trump’s candidacy were abetted by Brits and Russians, and there is hard evidence available for those wanting to look.
For what it is worth, it was widely reported that Obama’s “colleagues” contributed huge amounts to unseat Netanyahu, and failed. I suspect they are still trying!
Sauce for the Goose is sauce for the Gander!!!
Russians have been connected to BLM, anti pipeline groups, anti fracking groups, and CAGW alarmism with the clear intent to bolster these radical groups in an attempt to hinder U.S. society and economy. This means we should investigate the political campaign that was not supported by these groups at all, any questions?
Don’t forget to mention the Bernie and Hillary connections to Russia.
Sounds to me like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman must be Russian agents.
Or useful idiots? 🙂
Safer to assume – both
Jean Parisot: I disagree, not safer to assume. Better to observe, keep data, note trends, observe, form theory, test theory, more observations, analyze data… so yeah, both. Actually, I do agree!
The Russian anti-fracking propaganda is very evident on the RT “Kaiser Report”, but most media outlets are now platforms for shameless political/financial campaigning for some cause or other, so why not the Russians? The BBC World Service is worse than RT.
Same a it ever was with the Russians, there have been an unashamed supply of fools in the West.
This is how it was in the Spanish Civil War, when many American show stars and important writers went on to sing a battle for Stalin. There was even a battalion of American soldiers only, while Stalin unloaded his tanks from the ships in Barcelona.
Well, other times same methods. It seems that the American has never heard of Potemkin villages. Deception has always been the means of the Russians. If you know this, you can work very well with them.
For centuries, Russia was ruled by the Mongols. Since you learn the deception to survive as a people. In addition, we see China’s behavior both at dumping prices in world trade and at its ridiculous attempts to cover up its own environmental sins with membership of the Paris climate treaty, which ticking prevails in those in the head. Deceive, deceive, deceive. In contrast, Trump is an honest, unpolished log.
Rosneft laundered money into the Sierra Club and the NRDC to strangle U.S. energy development.
There’s your collusion right there.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/foreign-firm-funding-u-s-green-groups-tied-to-state-owned-russian-oil-company/
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are probably doing the same thing. It’s not hard to find a plethora of anti-fracking stuff on AlJazeera, Qater’s state run media.
Same in the UK. We have a vociferous anti-fracking movement lead by professional activists. It is ‘unknown’ who pays them, but it is not difficult to guess.
You don’t see greenies protesting Chinese wholesale destruction of coral reefs either. Funny that. Where’s David Attenborough? Suzuki! Where’s __________?
And when the water-mellons bother russian drillers in the arctic, they point a pistol in their face, they wimp-out, and get dropped in a dungeon until they’ve been re-educated about the terms and conditions orf their funding.
Then they go away, and say nada.
High principles indeed.
Well, at least they wanted to ‘save’ the [western] world.
The right stuff.
The US foundations like Rockefeller and Tides have been doing the same thing in Canada for years.
Everyone needs to be aware of the ‘Weaponization of Social Media’ . James Corbett has done another excellent job of exposing how this works.
James is one of the best independent journalists in a world with MSM cardboard cutout robots and ego-centric half-truth pedaling agents like Alex Jones. I’m glad to see someone on here appreciates his work.
I’m sure you are familiar with Jon Rappaport at nomorefakenews.com? The guy is spectacular for his ability to cut through the nonsense and hysteria.
Anyway, just glad to see someone who appreciates the work of Mr. Corbett.
Great stuff by Corbett. Along similar lines check out Lee Camp at Redacted Tonight on RT (yes RT on RT) for his take on the Muller indictments.
Although he still thinks CO2 is a problem and is very left wing he doesn’t fall for a lot of the nonsense and is very funny (good thing for a comedian). I can’t wait for him to realise that the whole global “ice age/warming/change” meme is fake and that he’s been had. He will get mad and take a strip off the Manns of this world when he does figure it out.
Yes but that is a conspiracy wrapped up in an enigma. The end result they want is to keep Heavy Bitumen landlocked in Canada without much pipeline capacity to either coast, so as the Gulf coast refineries get Western Canada Select (WCS) heavy oil at a 15%-20% discount. Talk about dirty politics, and with your best friend and trading partner yet.
That Russia toys around with activist politics in others’ backyards, isn’t news. That the USA does this and so much more to Canada, and especially an ally, best friend and biggest trading partner, is really dirty pool. But what are friends for, right?
You are very naïve about International politics. The 1st thing I learned in “International Relations 101′ is that no country has ‘friends’, only converging and diverging interests.
CorpEthics brags about their meddling in Canadian policy and politics with The Tar Sands Campaign : “…All the proposed pipelines in Canada have effectively been blocked, as have those proposed in the U.S. The Keystone XL Campaign became the most well-known of all the pipeline campaigns achieving a remarkable victory when President Obama not only rejected it, but also publicly stated that “some oil has to stay in the ground if we are to avoid the dangers of climate change. The Tar Sands Campaign jump started the climate movement in the U.S. as major political figures, celebrities, and a diverse array of NGOs came together to pressure the Administration to reject this pipeline. It also played a role in helping to unseat the Conservative Party in Alberta and nationally.”
https://corpethics.org/the-tar-sands-campaign/
‘Useful tools’, these gullible environmental activists.
It’s fairly obvious that many of the regular commenters on the Guardian Environment pages are in the pay of the Kremlin.
They oppose fracking in the West and yet promote intermittent energy sources that still need rapidly ramped up backup, e.g Russian Gas.
The real question is whether the employed commenters at the Guardian are paid by a foreign power.
Who does fund the SKS mob?
To my fellow Courtney: I wish I could say, “Gotta be Russians or Iranians, ’cause no way Americans would fall for such an obvious scam site”. Unfortunately…..
Obviously MSM conditioning works: Worrall is taking now over Driessen…
Meanwhile, in Canada, the Rockefeller Brothers and Steyer, Tides and co. are responsible for the deleterious campaign against Canada’s oil and gas export… They too must be Russian agents, right?… or, if the above Bloomberg report is to be taken at face value -really, since when MSM should…-, then the US is getting its own treatment. LOL
P.S. Source on Canada’s anti oil campaign: http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/
Perhaps, Russia methods are working also in higher places. There are also people in higher places who can be deceived and deceived. Potemkin deceived the Czar about the existence of flourishing villages, so it is called Potemkin villages
the answer to your question lies here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relationship_with_Gazprom_and_Rosneft
We’ve heard plenty about the influence of money from “big oil” in denying “climate science”.
Not surprising that the prog accusers were doing precisely what they accused others of.
It’s a standard trick of morally-deficient leftists.
“Former Secretary of State and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with access to intelligence reports”
Hillary Clinton Gave Russia the US Technology for Hypersonic Intercontinental Nuke Missiles
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/stunning-hillary-clinton-gave-russia-us-technology-hypersonic-intercontinental-nuke-missiles/
there is no proof of this scurious attack
‘Scurrilous’ + ‘Spurious’ = ‘scurious’
Good one.
The accusation is old news that came out in August of 2016, when it was published widely in the news media. Worth looking into.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-government-initiative-gave-millions-to-clinton-foundation/
Hilarious. Russia has been “propagandizing” against the US for at least the last 70+ yrs. I’m really scared….
And remember, according to McCain, Obama Russia is just a regional power, a service station, really nothing… but yet the same claim Russians are omnipotent touching everything, even ruling every facet of the entire U.S… like Weinstein’s libido wanting to destroy the beacon of free speech that is Hollywood
LOL
Is this your spin Beng and Tom – your emergency damage control now that you and your fellow-travelers have been exposed?
Try harder – your comments are such transparent, self-serving nonsense that you should be embarrassed.
Global warming alarmism is a multi-trillion dollar sc@m that has not only cost trillions, it has cost millions of lives.
Yeah Allan MacRae and it was a Russian climatologist from NASA who testify in 1988 and had the clim turned down… And it was the Russian directed IPCC that up the ante after every report, and it was all Russian peer review controlled that blocks non alarmist papers… and it was Russian dominated EU scrooges who forced carbon scams upon Europeans… And let me guess, it was a Russian hack that signed your last comment under your name so it sounds like some McCain supporter, right?
Tom, we had our 10 yo grand daughter for a sleepover last night.
At breakfast this morning yet another global warming snow squall came in from the North Sea which is 100 yards from our window.
I being a bit peevish at missing my Saturday golf must have said ” where the …. is all this snow coming from?”
Quick as a flash she said ” oh grandad its coming from Russia”
So there!
Waterside4, indeed for instance French newspapers hand in hand with their national weather agency proselytes have popularized the “Moscow-Paris” term for this cold snap despite Polar air masses fed through Scandinavian trajectories… In the U.K. it was the Beast from the East…
One can imagine the disastrous subliminal message acknowledging the Scandinavian origin of this cold snap would have on the NATO psyche… LOL
Allan MacRae, what in the world are you talking about? Are you on something?
That Russia has a long history of doing something is proof that they aren’t doing it now?
They’ve been “doing things” a long time & continue to do so. We’ve dealt w/it for a lifetime & continue to do so. The “Russian collusion” stuff is a false-flag liberal-construct. Surely you know that…..
And the Russians are using social media to undermine fossil-fuel interests? Wow, that’s just terrifying….
That they have been doing it a long time is not evidence that the current campaign has had no affect.
They are doing a lot more than just a social media campaign.
What is disappointing, is that there was a time when the internet seemed to have such promise, and it’s slipped into this dark-age propaganda battlefield of ugly ideas and images, designed specifically to undermine what had made that early promise worthwhile.
Now the internet routinely turns my stomache.
And that never used to happen.
Then again, I could say the same thing about ABC TV in Oz too.
But its also a fact that the USA want to sabotage the new Russian pipeline to germany!Why?They want to sell their gas to europe-but it cost much more.Also Ukraine import now US coal…but their neighbour Poland has also a lot of coal…its all about business.
Russia has a long history of using it’s exports to try and influence the foreign policy of those countries that are receiving. This goes double for gas.
The US has a good reason to be concerned about Russia’s attempts to increase the black mail potential.
Does Ukraine pay its coal bill, each delivery? They have a rep of not paying, hence Poland is not supplying. Just don’t supply them on credit, and yes, it’s business.
It is time for a criminal investigation of the funding sources of the radical green and leftard groups that have been opposing pipelines, fracking, oilsands, etc. and pushing the false green-energy agenda, and the criminal actions of those who have received that funding.
IT IS TIME FOR PRISON TIME.
Posted early this morning.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/01/british-snow-chaos-running-out-of-gas/comment-page-1/#comment-2756418
IMPORTANT
Hi Anthony
I just read this article from GWPF – now it all makes sense. This stunning report by the House of Representatives is just “the tip of the iceberg”, imo.
Anti-pipeline, anti-fracking, anti-oilsands – it’s the new Cold War.
Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, wrote this article in 1994. It still rings true today. Read “The Rise of Eco-Extremism”.
http://ecosense.me/2012/12/30/key-environmental-issues-4/
Regards, Allan
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Benny Peiser
Date: March 2, 2018 at 11:11:16 AM MST
Subject: Russia’s Secret Campaign Against U.S. Energy Policy Revealed
GWPF Newsletter 02/03/18
Russia’s Secret Campaign Against U.S. Energy Policy Revealed
U.S. House Committee Reveals Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media
A Russian-backed propaganda group used social media in an attempt to disrupt the U.S. energy industry and influence energy policy, according to a new congressional staff report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Unlike other Russian campaigns to stir political unrest in the U.S., this effort by the tech-savvy Internet Research Agency is characterized as mostly one-sided, agitating against American fossil-fuel production in a way lawmakers believe was aimed at benefiting Russia, the world’s largest oil producer.
–The Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2018
The purpose of this report is to provide the American people with the findings of the Committee’s investigation into Russian efforts to influence U.S. energy markets. First, the report discusses several factors driving the Kremlin’s desire to interfere with U.S. energy markets and influence domestic energy policy. Next, it demonstrates how the Kremlin manipulated various groups in an attempt to carry out its geopolitical agenda, particularly with respect to domestic energy policy. Finally, this report provides an assessment of the Committee’s findings, including examples of Russian-propagated content targeting U.S. energy markets and domestic energy policy. The facts put into perspective the nature and extent of the Kremlin’s energy influence-peddling operation.
–United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Majority Staff Report, 1 March 2018
1) Russia’s Secret Campaign Against U.S. Energy Policy Revealed
The Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-meddling-on-social-media-targeted-u-s-energy-industry-report-says-1519902001?utm_source=CCNet+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a10c8bbc3c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe4b2f45ef-a10c8bbc3c-20138661
2) Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media
United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Majority Staff Report, 1 March 2018
https://thegwpf.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=c0b87e49db&e=da89067c4f
3) Gazprom: Russia Is EU’s Energy Guardian as Cold Grips Europe
Bloomberg, 2 March 2018
4) Reminder: Putin TV Station ‘Stokes Fracking Fears’
The Times, 6 August 2016
5) Europe’s Green Madness: Russia’s Grip On Anti-Fracking EU Tightening
OilPrice.com, 3 January 2018
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LOL
Considering the Saudis in cahoots with the U.S. have done more to inflict a world oil price collapse for the past 3 years despite only a 3% imbalance between production and consumption… really.
Irrelevant comment Tom Rude.
Actually Tom, a pathetic attempt at spinning the facts – an embarrassing attempt at damage control.
To the extent that the Saudi’s did nothing to stop the recent price slide that was caused by a temporary drop in demand is due entirely to internal Saudi politics.
FIrst, they wanted to under cut Canada non-conventional oil development. They also wanted to under cut further fracking in the US.
Primarily they were trying to hurt Iran, whom they are currently having a proxy war with.
Well if now a bunch of facebookers can do more damage to oil prices than US own disastrous foreign politics then kudos to Vladimir. Really it was so simple to get the Greatest Empire On the Face of the Universe off its golden rails… LOL
Beware, there might be a Russian under your chair… And perhaps my posting, although I am no Russian, may change the US energy policy too? For instance, I won’t be driving my car today. Don’t need too. That’s it: I must be an agent and gasoline price will plummet in the US and thousands of refinery employees will lose their job because of my post… No?
Meanwhile, I won’t send my kid to a US College: I want her back alive!
It was also no coincidence that the oil price collapse also happened soon after the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014 just after the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia and ruckus in Ukraine. I would add Russia to Iran as countries being punished with low oil prices by the American/Saudi coalition, with the Saudi’s dumping of excess oil, combined with the USA surplus of the fracking revolution. It was a perfect storm of ‘oil over production’ and then took a world of its own pricing as the entire globe pumped oil as quickly as possible with every company and nation state trying to remain fiscally solvent and therefore driving the price down to the point that has oil still recovering in the low $60’s.
Of course, you would have to add to this that we still haven’t reached peak oil, and there is a heavy surplus to pump and dump. But it did limit both Russia and Iran (and other oil exporting nations) in earning foreign income due to a lower global oil price the last 3-4 years. Plus was a shot in the arm for most global economies having cheap fossil energy which also ensured a healthy stock market and was supposed to allow for the introduction of carbon taxes and/or carbon trading schemes, while oil was at historical low prices. Remember too, that this originally happened in Obama’s last few years in office as a lame duck President and soon after, it acquired a life of it own unintended consequences that continue to this very day.
To Earthling2 March 3, 2018 at 2:58 pm comment
I’d add that low U.S. natural gas prices, produced by fracking, inhibited the Russian’s ability dump “natural gas” via the urea fertilizer markets.
Russia extensively used “urea dumping” as a means of raising capital in the years following the Soviet Union’s collapse in the 1990’s. During that period it was cheaper for U.S. fertilizer producers to buy Russian urea (made in the Ukraine with Russia natural gas), re-melt it, and re-prill it than it was to manufacture feedstock urea in the United States.
I suspect that after the Russian economy began it’s 2nd downward spiral, circa 2008, Russia’s desperate need for cash was one of the reason’s Russia was motivated to re-assert control in the Ukraine in 2014. Specifically, so it could control Ukraine’s fertilizer production facilities and maintain unfettered access to the Crimean’s shipping terminals.
Could the information in this article be relevant? https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/27869-deep-state-follow-the-rothschild-soros-and-rockefeller-money
Take a look at the section called ‘Deep State Foundations Finance Evil’ regarding the ‘green’ agenda.
So is it now time for a thorough investigation into Russian attempts to interfere with US policies and elections, together with serious attempts to prevent this happening in future?
Be careful what you wish for. I would suggest that this has occurred to special counsel Mueller. Am I the only one here that remembers our esteemed POTUS’ continuing flirtation with Vladimir Putin? It seems that POTUS and the Russians have many common enemies.
Of course they have, and the Arabs have been in there too.
Also the Climategate e-mails were stolen and made of public domain from russian hackers…
You are confusing Hillary’s e-mails with the climate-gate e-mails.
No, I don’t. It was 2009 and may be I’am not precise but some russian link existed, may be only for hiding the thief identity.
There was never a Russian link to the climate gate e-mails, and most people believe they were leaked, not pilfered.
Most the environmental “useful idiots” are actually okay with a radical socialist ideology that is just a modern form of Marxist thought. Collectivism, as in collectivizing agricultural under centralized control, controlling what people read and say. Framing everything as a class struggle between the proletariat the bourgeois.
They don’t realize they are being manipulated not just by the Russians, but by billionaire investors like Soros and Tom Steyer, men with multi-billion dollar long positions on essentially making fossil fuels very expensive. The people who of course get crushed are the working poor by their evil schemes.
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I do look at RT every now and then, just for interest sake. The thought did not escape me that there may have been a hidden agenda, to put all the US people on TV complaining about the chemicals they found in the groundwater….due to “fracking”
I find RT to be very subtle. Their presentations are professional and provide an intelligent take on Russian perspectives that usually stands up to analysis. In general it is more sophisticated than U..S. news.
Then, just about the time they’ve convinced you they are legit, they put the subtle slant of Kremlin disinformation on something that matters.
I think it takes a sharp eye to catch their dissembling.
TomRude- These actions are like advertising. It may seem stupid but they keep paying for it because?-It works! If you don’t believe that you are a fool.
I have no doubts voters in Michigan were watching RT every evening before casting their ballots…
Given water is a chemical, and the ground consists of nothing but chemicals … I’m not surprised they found chemicals in their ground water.