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Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, and the European Energy Crisis

December 21, 2021 May 11, 2022

Russia’s occupation of its neighbors, and threats to the Nord Stream 2 project, risk a war between Russia and Ukraine.

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Qatar/Iran natural gas field, Syria’s civil war and the refugee crisis

September 11, 2015 September 11, 2015

Syria’s fossil fuel resources are dwindling fast, making that country an unattractive place to fight a war over crude oil supplies.  Yet, a war is being fought over the future of Syria, and a side effect of that war is the huge refugee crisis in Europe.  Earlier I’ve made the case…

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Europe/GAZPROM sign natural gas deal, cementing dominance by Russian fossil fuel supply

September 4, 2015 September 4, 2015

Russia and Europe just signed a pair of deals that will bolster Russia’s presence in and influence over Europe.  One deal is an asset swap with chemicals giant BASF that had earlier been delayed because of political pressure, and the other is an expansion of the NORD STREAM gas pipeline…

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NY Times’ circumstantial evidence Romanian anti-frackers on Russian payroll

December 1, 2014 June 3, 2015

  Allegations have resurfaced that Anti-Fracking activists in Europe are on Russia’s payroll, according to a NY Times news article.  That article focuses on the anti-fracking protest focused on Pungesti Romania, which I’ve covered in-depth last winter.  The claim is that if the anti-frackers are successful in banning fracking, they’re…

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Florida’s cleaner electricity from high efficiency power plant preserves fossil fuel addiction

November 12, 2014 March 30, 2015

Florida Power and Light (FPL) is taking delivery of the third of three Siemens ultra-high-efficiency natural gas turbines for FPL’s Port Everglades Next Generation Clean Energy Center. The Siemens SGT6-8000H gas turbines and Siemens SST6-5000 steam turbine at the site are the core of FPL’s modernization of the Clean Energy Center.…

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Is Israel’s latest Gaza Strip invasion aimed to grab control of Palestinian natural gas fields?

July 23, 2014 October 19, 2015

The Israeli’s and Palestinians are fighting again, because of a long-running dispute over the political system that will control the land which was once called Palestine and is now called Israel.  Normally I wouldn’t cover the conflict on TheLongTailPipe because it’s one of those intractable political squabbles where one wishes…

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Obama pushing climate wrecking fossil fuels in Eastern Europe on day after big climate change announcement

June 3, 2014 June 13, 2015

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland walk to a bilateral meeting after posing for photos at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, June 3, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama just announced a massively great program to combat climate…

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Fuel source matters – fuel cell vehicles dirtier than gasoline, so why are FCEV’s getting so much attention?

May 30, 2014 May 13, 2015

Fuel cell’s seem like this magic technology – you pour in a clean fuel (hydrogen and oxygen) and out comes clean energy (electricity) and water.  Make a fuel cell big enough to power a car, or truck, and you’ve got a “clean” vehicle that can go a few hundred miles…

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VP Biden visits Romania, Cyprus, pushing fracking for European energy security and T-TIP talks

May 22, 2014 June 13, 2015

This week Vice President Biden became the most senior US Official to visit Cyprus in over a half century. The visit is part of a swing through Romania and Cyprus, and in both countries the Vice President is to work on strengthening economic ties, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership…

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Pres. Obama’s found hypocrisy over Iraq with which to bash Russia over Crimea

March 30, 2014 April 9, 2015

President Obama made a speech in Brussels on Wednesday that rewrites both his personal history, and the history around the Iraq War – BTW, the Shock & Awe invasion of Iraq occurred exactly 11 years ago today – so that he could bash Russia over it’s unilateral invasion and take-over…

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Europe’s dependency on Russian natural gas mirror’s Ukraine’s effort for liberation from Russia

March 11, 2014 September 4, 2015

Thanks to the political situation in Ukraine, American politics is discussing using America’s “glut” of natural gas as a political weapon.  The idea is to undermine Russia’s strength in natural gas supplies, by selling America’s natural gas into the world market, especially to critical countries most vulnerable to Russia, in…

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Ukraine caught in fracking-fueled tug-of-war between US and Russia, Europe’s natural gas supply at risk

March 4, 2014 March 28, 2021

The crisis in Ukraine is getting truly scary, as in US-Russia are now almost directly in conflict.  Stock markets are sliding, Russia is flexing its military might with an invasion of Crimea and military “exercises” on Ukraine’s borders, while the US and other countries have condemned Russia’s actions, threatened to…

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Ukraine’s revolution stems from dependency on Russian natural gas and plans to frack themselves free of Russia

February 19, 2014 March 28, 2021

This morning’s news tells us that the Ukranian government has begun an attack on protesters camped out in the Maidan, or Independence Square, known now as the Euromaidan.  Reports say that over 25 have been killed including several police officers.  The fighting follows several months where protesters have taken over…

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Natural gas companies pushing NGV’s for environmental reasons? No, it’s all business and sales

October 2, 2013 April 25, 2015

Opening the door to transportation fuels other than gasoline or diesel means considering not just electricity, but other fuels, like natural gas.  I personally want to see electric vehicles because that’s the best long-term solution.  However there’s an aspect to this where the companies that supply other energy sources, like…

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Dan Akerson on positioning GM as a solution for peak oil, resource exhaustion, national energy security and climate change

March 19, 2013 April 13, 2015

You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears.  The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…

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