Nicole Foss: Unfortunately for proponents of the appealing fantasy, reality wins in the end. We are not destined to see the geo-strategic map redrawn in favour of the West as a result of shale energy.
Instead, we are going to be facing some very hard decisions on rationing scarce resources for the foreseeable future, and we are going to be doing it in a time of deepening financial crisis. Britain will be critically short of both money and energy, and sadly those twin deficits can be expected to aggravate each other significantly.
Shale gas is a Faustian bargain meant to kick the energy can down the road, but it amounts to nothing more than a cruel deception.
Excellent article. How can we draw an energy map to the future???
The Russian Geologists I use to chat with at breaks and over lunch when I worked at the USGS in Lakewood Colorado, SAID EXACTLY THE SAME THING !!!
— some Russian guy —
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1. American Junk Scientists are sold-out and utterly worthless.
2. Eurotrash Amature-Junk Scientists are sold-out/willfully-ignorant and trading only on their good posture and ability to charm an amphitheatre full of twenty year olds with smooth sounding globalist indoctrination.
3. Russian Scientists are — umm…Russian Scientists!
http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.it/2012/12/russian-oil-and-future-of-catalytic.html
Fracking, for energy security? Because it is not imported! But who owns the companies that will be given the licenses to blow up the foundations of the countryside, and who owns the companies that the gas will be supplied to for producing deliverable energy to the people? Oh yeah, German or French or American. Certainly the British people will not have any input, gain, say in or connection to these companies. Companies who can hold the public to ransom over the absolute luxury of electricity, or who could destroy the water table of the country poisoning the public.
Oh, and just to make sure the sadistic controllers can do as they like let’s allow GM food in to poison the people. Roll up, roll up, to a supermaket near you toxic poison food that tastes good, yum!
@ all ~ The U.S. should ease restrictions on LNG exports and “place NATO allies on equal footing with free trade partners,” according to Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
Lugar, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Liquefied Natural Gas for NATO Act on Dec. 12, legislation that he says will help allies and weaken Russia and Iran.
“Lack of diversity in natural gas supplies to NATO allies and friends is a critical concern for United States national security interests. For the first time, vigorous U.S. diplomacy can be coupled with allowing free trade in liquefied natural gas from the United States,” Lugar said in a statement. “Now is the time to dramatically shift gas markets to blunt the temptation for political manipulation of supplies by Russia and Iran.”
The LNG for NATO Act was part of a report on energy and national security released by Lugar. The report encourages the U.S. to play a broader role in helping bring Caspian Basin natural gas to Europe, which will alleviate Russia’s stranglehold on gas markets and build up relations in the Caspian Sea region. Lugar asked his colleagues in the Foreign Relations Committee to restore a dedicated position of the U.S. Envoy for Eurasian Energy Security, and to make clear U.S. intentions to help Turkey and countries in central and southeastern Europe. His report also said that LNG exports from the U.S. to those allies in Europe would be “putting molecules where our mouth is.”
The report noted that U.S. shale plays are already reshaping the European gas market because cargoes that would have been destined to the U.S. are freed up. U.S. exports are the logical next step, according to the report, and countries may soon need new supply sources. Turkey relies on Iran for 20% of its gas imports, but those could soon be under pressure given a recent European Council decision to prohibit import or transport of gas supplies from Iran. Other allies in central and southeastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Greece, the Czech Republic and Moldova, have contracts with Gazprom that will expire before 2017.
“For these countries, targeted U.S. LNG exports, along with infrastructure investment and other policy responses, could help alleviate energy insecurity,” the report said. “It is possible that several other NATO allies and partners may opt for U.S. natural gas imports (and even paying a reliability premium for them) if the opportunity existed.”