PUNGESTI, Romania — Vlasa Mircia, the mayor of this destitute village in eastern Romania, thought he had struck it rich when the American energy giant Chevron showed up here last year and leased a plot of land he owned for exploratory shale gas drilling.
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Intelligence Reports Reveal Russia’s Secret War against America’s Fracking Industry
Recent intelligence reports show Russia is interested in influencing more than just America’s elections. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies have taken aim at undermining the U.S. energy industry.
Becoming earthquake country
In 1990, a group of Soviet scientists moved to Leonard, Oklahoma. They came as watchdogs, to ensure that the United States obeyed the nuclear Threshold Test Ban Treaty and did not secretly explode atomic bombs below ground. The Soviets needed a profoundly quiet place to observe vibrations in the region, because tremors might confuse their measurements. And in the United States, there were few places as seismically tranquil as Oklahoma. Not any more, thanks to fracking.
Rex Tillerson’s ExxonMobil Frequently Sought State Department Assistance, New Documents Show
Exxon Mobil sent State Department officials a request to help overcome local opposition to fracking in Germany; in Indonesia, the State Department acted as a advocate for Exxon Mobil during contentious negotiations between the firm and the Indonesian government over a major gas field in the South China Sea; and in Russia, Exxon Mobil asked the U.S. ambassador to press the Russians to approve a major drilling program, noting that a “warming of U.S.-Russian relations” overall would also help the company.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/exxonmobil-state-department/
Russians Target Fracking, Too
Assume for a moment that Vladimir Putin’s computer hacking conspiracy was effective enough to get Trump elected. It wasn’t, but we’ll get back to that in a moment. By that reasoning, the Kremlin is powerful enough to influence millions of American minds. What if Putin and company have been doing that very thing, more intensively than any effort they made regarding the election, in regard to fracking?
https://baltic.ai/russians-target-fracking-too-the-intelligencer-psyop/
Opec, Russia and ten others cut oil output but face ‘losing battle’ against US
The analyst added that the feeling within the oil industry was that a Trump presidency would be one keen to continue investing in shale fracking. “Lots of Trump’s promises to voters were all about industry and jobs, and by that he’s almost certainly thinking of fracking.”
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/opec-russia-ten-others-cut-oil-output-face-losing-battle-us/
The Suspicious Backers Of The Latest Climate Change Hyperbole
The United States has become its chief energy competitor. Thanks to the fracking boom, our country recently surpassed both Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top energy producer. American oil production alone has increased 89 percent since 2008 and we now pump out 9.4 million barrels every day.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/02/the-suspicious-backers-of-the-latest-climate-change-hyperbole/