Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, and the European Energy Crisis
Russia’s occupation of its neighbors, and threats to the Nord Stream 2 project, risk a war between Russia and Ukraine.
Tag: Ukraine
Trump’s team possibly committing bad crimes over the Biden/Ukraine story
The Biden/Ukraine story is back in the news, and this time it looks like a doozy. This story has nothing to do with clean energy or electric vehicles or anything The Long Tail Pipe normally examines. But this story has been on our pages before, and I’ve reluctantly talked myself…
Biden/Ukraine story getting more heat and suspiciousness
As a reminder, this story began in 2014 in the aftermath of what we might think of as a US-backed coup in Ukraine. During 2013 the US/EU was negotiating with Ukraine for the country to shift focus to engagement with the West, but in late 2013 then-Pres. Yanukovych suddenly flipped…
Nepotism bites VP Joe Biden as he starts 2020 Presidential run
Back in 2014 then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was named to the Board of The Burisma Group, the largest privately-held natural gas company in Ukraine. On April 1, 2019, The Hill reported on an event where Joe Biden bragged over having pressured Ukraine, in March 2016, to fire…
Cold War reawakens in Eastern Europe as tensions grow around Ukraine
The US and Russia have restarted the Cold War – probably to the delight of the Military-Industrial complex, because the Cold War means increased military spending which is good for business when your business makes guns or bullets or bombs. That leaves the rest of us to groan about the…
Shell, Chevron, pull out of fracking deals in Ukraine citing the war with Separatists and Russia
About a year ago I penned some blog posts about the shale gas fracking deals which were made by Ukraine during 2013, prior to the revolution which ousted then-President Yanukovych. There are large shale deposits in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and the Baltic Countries, which are believed to be frackable.…
Obama pushing climate wrecking fossil fuels in Eastern Europe on day after big climate change announcement
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…
VP Biden visits Romania, Cyprus, pushing fracking for European energy security and T-TIP talks
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…
Nepotism invades Ukraine as VP Biden’s son named Director of Ukraine’s largest oil company
R. Hunter Biden The United States is maneuvering the Ukraine situation so that Western Oil Companies have free access to frack and drill all across the country. It’s bad enough that the U.S. is toppling a whole government, risking a major war, just to drill for oil, even if the…
Russia-Ukraine crisis has Europe’s energy Ministers scrambling under threat of another Russian gas blackout
As the days go by, the crisis between Russia and Ukraine is getting more worrisome, with what looks like a Civil War brewing in Ukraine, and Russia and the U.S. perhaps coming to blows. Readers of the LongTailPipe blog will know the backstory is Russia’s desire to remain in a…
VP Biden brings fracking experts to Ukraine in aid package meant for freedom from Russia
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to jumpstart plans frack that country. The aid package offered to Ukraine is $50 million split over several forms of assistance to restructure Ukraine’s government. Some of which is, of course, development of shale gas resources, or in other words fracking.…
Pres. Obama’s found hypocrisy over Iraq with which to bash Russia over Crimea
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…
Russia’s annexation of Crimea could cause Europe to frack itself
Ukraine crisis may speed up fracked natural gas exports to Europe
Ukraine caught in fracking-fueled tug-of-war between US and Russia, Europe’s natural gas supply at risk
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…
