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Eugene

(62,775 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2023, 08:58 AM Nov 2023

Russia's Lavrov assails West over switch to green energy

Source: Reuters

Russia's Lavrov assails West over switch to green energy

Reuters
Wed, November 8, 2023 at 4:08 AM EST·1 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Wednesday of provoking crises on the global oil and gas market by rushing to switch to green energy and imposing pressure on other countries to do the same.

"In fact, the reasons for the negative phenomena in the energy sector were the irresponsible actions of the collective West, when it decided to force ... the green transition for itself and impose the same green transition on other countries that were simply not economically ready for it," Lavrov said in televised comments.

He said Western boycotts of Russian energy in response to the war in Ukraine had "dealt a serious blow to global energy security. These steps led to the rupture of historical value chains, costly redistribution of global energy flows and rising transaction and logistics costs."

Lavrov said the blowing-up of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines to Europe last year had deprived the continent of cheap gas and made it more reliant on expensive imports from the United States.

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Russia's Lavrov assails West over switch to green energy (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2023 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Nov 2023 #1
Our trees are starving for CO2!!! ExciteBike66 Nov 2023 #2
There's nothing "green" about the liquefied natural gas... hunter Nov 2023 #3

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ExciteBike66

(2,640 posts)
2. Our trees are starving for CO2!!!
Wed Nov 8, 2023, 09:52 AM
Nov 2023

How many trees in Siberia have to die before we realize e must make more CO2...

hunter

(39,059 posts)
3. There's nothing "green" about the liquefied natural gas...
Wed Nov 8, 2023, 12:54 PM
Nov 2023

... that's replacing the Russian natural gas that fueled Germany's "green energy" fantasies.

LNG is considerably dirtier because fossil fuels are burned both to liquefy and transport it.

You can judge the success of Germany's green energy programs here:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

Solar and wind power have never been a threat to the natural gas industry, which is why many billionaires have no qualms about investing in both.

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