{"id":33188,"date":"2018-04-22T21:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33188"},"modified":"2018-04-22T21:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:09:42","slug":"russian-collusion-is-real-just-not-where-robert-mueller-is-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33188","title":{"rendered":"Russian Collusion Is Real–Just Not Where Robert Mueller Is Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article today about the collusion between Russia<\/a> and some popular environmental groups in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

New Yorkers<\/a> who are missing out on the natural gas revolution could be victims of Russian spy<\/a> operations that fund popular environmental groups, current and former U.S. government officials and experts on Russia worry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natural gas development of the celebrated Marcellus Shale<\/a> deposits has spurred<\/a> jobs and other economic growth in neighboring Pennsylvania. But not in New York, which nearly 10 years ago banned the process of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to produce natural gas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two environmental advocacy groups that successfully lobbied against fracking in New York each received more than $10 million in grants from a foundation in California that got financial support from a Bermuda company congressional investigators linked to the Russians, public documents show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The environmental groups Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a> and the Sierra Club Foundation<\/a> millions of dollars in grants from the San Francisco<\/a>-based Sea Change Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cFollow the money trail, and this [New York] ban on fracking could be viewed as an example of successful Russian espionage,\u201d Ken Stiles, a CIA veteran of 29 years who now teaches at Virginia Tech, told The Daily Signal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains why the Russians would be concerned about energy development in America:<\/p>\n

Since the U.S. is now the top producer of natural gas <\/a>in the world, and well positioned to export liquefied natural gas across the globe, Russia recognizes it gradually could lose influence in parts of the world where Moscow has been the dominant supplier of oil and gas, Stiles said in a phone interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s natural gas revolution has huge geopolitical ramifications, so Russia\u2019s motivation to try to block our natural gas development is easy to understand,\u201d the CIA veteran said. \u201cIf you are worried about the Russian bear rearing its ugly head in the next several years, the way to stop that and put it back into its cage is to cut it off at the knees financially.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what natural gas pipelines are all about and that\u2019s what fracking is all about. We are providing affordable energy to average Americans at home and our allies overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Russian economy<\/a> depends on higher oil prices. Russia also uses energy to blackmail European countries into cooperation. America’s development of its own natural resources is a necessary balance to the Russian use of energy as a blackmail tool.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Signal posted an article today about the collusion between Russia and some popular environmental groups in America. The article reports: New Yorkers who are missing out on the natural gas revolution could be victims of Russian spy operations … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,2194,11316,1900,1083,11638,11637,3327],"class_list":["post-33188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-independence","tag-marcellus-shale","tag-natural-resources-defense-council","tag-russia","tag-russian-economy","tag-sierra-club-foundation","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33198,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33188\/revisions\/33198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}