Putin's KGB Masterstroke: Fracking Banned in Europe Despite Massive Reserves

Europe has more recoverable shale gas than the U.S.

Europe could use some good 'ol hydrocarbons liberated from shale right about now, especially in Germany, where they are restarting coal and nuclear plants, and burning wood pellets from old growth forests in Europe and new growth USA resources to stay warm and power their economy.

Fracking is a very important source of hydrocarbons worldwide and is a very important part of our national energy security. In Europe, fracking is getting a second look because of the energy crisis brought on ironically by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Given the above, Europe has significant fracking resources or shale deposits depending on the country, and overall, Europe may have more potential shale hydrocarbon resources than the USA.

EIA World Shale Resource Assessments

Unfortunately, it is generally more difficult to harvest hydrocarbons from shale in Europe vs. the wide open spaces in the USA. This is because of land ownership boundaries, mineral rights and regulations, and perhaps most importantly, the coordinated anti-fracking environmental groups. Many countries have banned fracking in Europe as a result of Green Lobbying. In yet another irony, Ukraine possesses has a lions-share of shale deposits in Europe. Perhaps # 3 in Europe.

Connecting the dots, Ukraine natural gas and rest of Europe shale resources could put a dent in Putin's natural gas sales

Russia’s silent shale gas victory in Ukraine

So what is the leading cause of the Banned Fracking in Europe?

For the last 15 years or so, KGB puppet master Putin and Gazprom, in cahoots with perhaps the most corrupt official in modern German history, Gerhard Schroeder, who now sits on the Gazprom board, conducted a well funded campaign to co-opt European energy policy and bring Germany within the sphere of Putin's influence.

The KGB Putin Operation

For many years the Russian Government and Gazprom have been surreptitiously funding the German Green Movement(s) and have formed fake environmental organizations to promote natural gas and ban nuclear and fracking. They have funded and promoted politicians and organizations who were pro Nordstream and anti nuclear and fracking. But the Russian’s greatest coup was having in office Schroeder and then Merkel, both pro-Russia natural gas. Further note that Merkel was born in East Germany and speaks fluent Russian.

License to Kill (add Polonium)

My Bro Gerhard $

I Love You Angela, especially because you speak fluent Russian.

Here are few tasty articles to get you started, the literature is quite large:

Russia’s Financial Support for Anti-Fracking Groups Is No Coincidence

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/anti-fracking-groups-russia-secret-funding-protects-kremlin-interests/

Is Russia Funding Europe's Anti-fracking Green Protests?

https://www.hudson.org/energy/is-russia-funding-europe-s-anti-fracking-green-protests-

Why Putin's Pal, Germany's Ex-Chancellor Schroeder, Isn't On A Sanctions List

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/18/601825131/why-putins-pal-germanys-ex-chancellor-hasnt-landed-on-a-sanctions-list

Fossil fools: How Germany’s fear of nuclear power put Putin in charge of Europe

https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/germany-nuclear-power-russia-putin/

Shale gas and other unconventional hydrocarbons: The EU helps ensure proper environmental safeguards in the extraction of shale gas.

https://wayback.archive-it.org/12090/20220725140121/https:/energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/oil-gas-and-coal/shale-gas-and-other-unconventional-hydrocarbons_en

European Unconventional Oil and Gas Assessment (EUOGA): Overview of the current status and development of shale gas and shale oil in Europe

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2017-09/t3_overview_of_the_current_status_and_development_of_shale_gas_and_shale_oil_in_europe.pdf