Links tagged “fracking”

Expert James Carafano: 'Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe' ... By 2016, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and Bulgaria had all banned fracking, either temporarily or permanently. Russia’s power over European energy grew large by 2022, providing roughly 40% of the continent’s natural gas supply. Lithuania, for example, gets 83% of its oil imports from Russia, Poland gets 58% and Finland 80%, The Hill reported. 

"You're not really an independent nation if you depend on foreign countries so heavily for your energy supplies," Michael Shellenberger said.

Not content with letting the radical Greens do this work for him, Mr Putin decided to give them a helping hand. Alarmed by the fall in the gas price that America’s shale revolution promised, he told a global economic conference in 2013 that “black stuff comes out of the tap” when you frack near people’s homes, an absurd claim that not even Friends of the Earth would dare make. Russian support for anti-fracking campaigns over the past decade took the form of...some overt political lobbying by the country’s Gazprom and Russian money almost certainly finding its way into the coffers of environmental pressure groups. ... 

The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington DC, published a report that concluded: “Russian-supported consultancies in Europe may be helping some of the environmental groups opposed to hydraulic fracturing”.

Elon Musk: "Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately. Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures." ... "Obviously, this would negatively affect Tesla, but sustainable energy solutions simply cannot react instantaneously to make up for Russian oil & gas exports." 

From 2018 Congressional Report: "A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change." ...

In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report stating there is “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.” ...

"Hillary Clinton, with access to intelligence reports, made a private speech in 2014...about the struggles of dealing with Russian-backed environmental groups...Secretary Clinton said: '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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2018: CFACT & Climate Depot's billboard went up: — ‘Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy. – How’s that for COLLUSION?’

2018 CFACT report: Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed - By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

2018: CFACT report: Real Russian collusion the MSM ignores- By Paul Driessen

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March 2022: Michael Shellenberger: "15 years ago Europe exported more natural gas than Russia does today. Now, Russia exports 3x more gas than Europe produces. Why? Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking." 

The former Head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, has called on Boris Johnson to 'immediately lift the moratorium on fracking' and help Britain's European partners to divest from Russian gas dependency.

"I don't know what's come into the government's heads on [Net Zero] because they've just adopted a set of crazy, unattainable objectives."

“We now have to reorder our national security priorities and we have got to change our energy security policy which is a fundamental part of our national security policy.”