In spring 2022 the U.S. stepped to the plate to help the world lessen its reliance on Russian fossil fuels, with President Biden announcing the U.S. would begin shipping billions of cubic meters of liquefied natural gas to the European Union.
It was a “joint game plan,” Biden said, to accelerate “progress towards a secure, clean energy future.” By August the plan was working, at least as far as cutting off Russian energy sales — as energy companies stepped to the plate in a wild selling frenzy, raking in obscene profits, to the tune of as much $200 million in profits for a single gas shipment.
U.S. sales to Europe had tripled and European costs had risen by 200%, with no end to the party in sight as a cold, long winter loomed on the horizon.
And then, in September, something else happened: The Nord Stream gas pipeline blew up. Immediately, speculation about who or what caused the explosion filled the internet as news agencies scrambled to get to the “mystery” behind it.
One investigative journalist, Seymour Hersch, didn’t join in with the rest, though. He did his homework and what he found is that the explosion was the result of the U.S. stepping to the plate again, this time by blowing up the pipeline. The Biden administration denies it, but Hersch is adamant the U.S. did it, and he says he has the proof.
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The Economic Times February 11, 2023
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Publish Date: 2023-02-19 04:43:37