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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUsing Ukraine to Cook the Planet By Naomi Klein
The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian hysteria, two bills have been introduced into the US Congress one in the House of Representatives (H.R. 6), one in the Senate (S. 2083) that attempt to fast-track liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, all in the name of helping Europe to wean itself from Putin's fossil fuels, and enhancing US national security.
According to Cory Gardner, the Republican congressman who introduced the House bill, "opposing this legislation is like hanging up on a 911 call from our friends and allies". And that might be true as long as your friends and allies work at Chevron and Shell, and the emergency is the need to keep profits up amid dwindling supplies of conventional oil and gas.
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2014/04/using-ukraine-cook-planet
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And obviously not us as customers?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)when there are profits to be made.
enough
(13,256 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)above everything. The MIC pukes and their facilitators will kill everything on the planet for one more dollar. Also, the main thing is to take revenge on Putin, who, in reality, makes...(never mind, accidentally switched off my internal GPS).
GeorgeGist
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Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I'm so glad she back. She took a year off after her baby was born..
One smart cookie.