The great
economic interest the USA had in Ukraine appeared slightly muted due to sharp
political events in the South-East. Although, if we examine more closely, the
real reason underlying the non-stop bloodbath becomes very clear.
For years,
American oil companies have been putting pressure on European countries, seeking
to persuade them to develop shale gas. Despite Europe's dependence on the USA,
there is quite solid resistance to this idea from the population of these
countries. Bulgaria, France, United Kingdom, and Poland failed to endorse this
project. Even Romania is going to introduce a moratorium on the exploration and
production of shale gas.
Only Ukraine
agrees.
The environmental
impacts of shale gas are catastrophic. They include earthquakes, floods,
groundwater pollution, and pestilence of marine animals,
birds, and fish, streams of water boiling with methane, and poisoned drinking
water and air. People that live nearby shale gas developments have observed
poisoning, accompanied by headaches, loss of consciousness, they have
neuropathy, asthma, cancer, and other diseases. Drinking water just cannot be
drinking water anymore. It becomes murky, even black. If the water flowing from
the tap can be burned, than what will happen to the people who consume it?
Furthermore,
"so far there is no information about the
means of disposing of thousands of cubic meters of fracturing fluid from
several thousand wells, which will produce shale gas. Are they really going to
be buried in the ground or discharged into water bodies? The experience of
foreign companies in third world countries (Ukraine cannot even claim to be the
one of them) shows that they are capable of environmental crimes (Ecuador,
Nigeria, etc.) “ [see here]
This is particularly the case for
Chevron and Shell, both of which have been implicated in major human rights
violations in Nigeria. Chevron has been accused of recruiting and supplying Nigerian military forces involved in
massacres of environmental protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta, and Shell
has faced charges of complicity in torture and other human rights abuses against the
Ogoni people of southern Nigeria. [see here]
However,
the “government of liquidators” (since their main function is to liquidate
Ukraine) doesn’t care about such trifles. Their task is to sell and destroy the
rest of what was once a naturally rich region, including natural resources, and
then profiteer from it before quietly exiting the scene.
However ... Who among those who exclaim their love of Ukraine is not also ready
to sell it?
For the
US, Putin’s blitz over Crimea was very painful for the reason of misguided
expectations. Money was already invested into gas exploration in Crimea. Companies
such as Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil,
Repsol and Petrochina were going
to develop their offshore energy assets.
Yanukovych’s
government sold 5 provinces of Ukraine to the Anglo-Dutch company, Shell, and US
Chevron for 50 years, with rights for renewal at their discretion.
Besides,
last year Ukrainian government held a series of talks and agreements, such as:
- With ExxonMobil on the study of hydrocarbons
in the western Black Sea coast of Ukraine.
- With
the Italian energy company Eni on
the development of unconventional hydrocarbons in the Black Sea.
On December
13, 2013 the well-known cookie giver, Victoria Nuland, made a speech at an
international business conference organized by Chevron where she urged Ukraine
to sign a new deal with the IMF, which "... will lead to an increase in
foreign direct investment, which is so urgently needed in Ukraine." Based
on who organized the conference, it is clear what kinds of investments are in
question.
This
year, negotiations took place between Chevron and the Ukrainian government on
strengthening the development of shale in Western Ukraine, as well
as the signing of an agreement between Royal Dutch Shell and the government of
Yanukovych to study shale formations in Eastern Ukraine.
According
to Article 2.5.3 of Agreement, the Ukrainian government has no right to refuse to renew this agreement.
Appendix
1 of the Agreement with the company «Shell» given the exact coordinates of the
"Treaty Land" to be allocated for shale gas. This area mainly is
Donetsk and Kharkiv provinces (approx. 7,886 square kilometers), including such
major cities as Slavyansk, Izum, Barvenkovo, a huge chunk of Kramatorsk, part
Druzhkivka and Balakley, as well as dozens and hundreds of smaller settlements.
According
to Article 37.2
(b) of Agreement, properties of residents of these cities no longer belong to the residents.
After the
coup, companies and mediators have been removed and were replaced with another one -
Burisma Holdings.
It’s
enough to look at the official website of "Burisma", as if
“Ukrainian” gas capacity, the largest gas producer in Ukraine, to understand
the background of what is happening in Ukraine.
Here is
the Board of Directors of the UKRAINIAN company. Don’t laugh.
- Hinter
Biden - the son of Vice President of the USA. Remember his Dad sitting on the
president of Ukraine’s chair? I guess, they both, the father and the son, feel
this country is nothing more but their own purchased property.
- Devon
Archer – the friend of Secretary of State John Kerry, Skull and Bones. Do we
need any comments?
- Alexander
Kwasnevski, ex-president of Poland. One of those who supported Maydan in all
possible ways. Poland actively participated in the formation of “Squads of
Death” in the Ukraine in September 2013. Foreign Minister Sikorski invited 86
members of the "Right sector" to Poland for training in the police
training center in Legionów.
No wonder
the US government supports the bombing of Donbass, doesn’t see the
thousands of refugees moving to the Russian borders, and stays blind and deaf to
peoples' screams: “Save Donbass People from Ukrainian Army!” What for? They
force this army and send them more equipment to help destroy the land that used
to be the richest and most blooming republic of the Soviet Union. It also explains why the Ukrainian Army makes
targeted bombing of the infrastructure of the region. This seems to be the goal
- to terminate as many people as possible, place another part of the people into
concentration camps, and intimidate the rest so they will run to Russia. Those
who are lucky to make it will find shelter in the brotherly country but some of
them, on buses filled with women and children, will be cynically shot on their way to
Mother Russia.
Look at
the confidential document on Ukraine proposed by RAND that “President” Petro
Poroshenko follows in his action toward East Ukraine.
The
document provides three stages of a military operation in eastern Ukraine,
including total isolation of the region, mechanized ground assaults, air
strikes, the usage of non-conventional weapons, and blockage of foreign
information sources.
Believe or not. Your choice, but it all happens in Ukraine
right now.
The heroic
city of Slavyansk is situated in the center of Yuzovsky shale gas. We all know
how selflessly rebels were fighting in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk for their
freedom as every day we heard it in the news. The shale gas is the main reason
for Americans to suppress the resistance of that city. Unluckily
for the residents of this region, gas reserves
over there are almost inexhaustible in
quantity. The more people are killed and the more buildings are destroyed,
the more gas wells can be drilled.
One more detail: Most businesses will be destroyed by bombing and the
rest will
cease to function as a result of signing
the Association Agreement with the EU.
This will significantly reduce the gas shortage in Ukraine.
Now, what
would all of those monster-businessmen do if Novorossia wins and kicks out the National
Guard occupiers from their homeland? Wow, they would lose money. What's that loss
compare to the life of 4 year old Arseniy with over 30 shell fragments in his
little head, or the lives of other children of Donbass? Those monsters have a dollar
sign instead of hearts. So, they do everything to not let the free Republic
of Novorossia emerge.
Any war is all about money…
Maybe I am very naïve but I still believe the world can stop the bloody
confectioner Poroshenko and his overseas bosses from genocide in the East of Ukraine
for dirty pieces of paper.
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