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Sens. Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin are among lawmakers calling for FERC to lift rules hampering the production of natural gas.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey told reporters Friday that joining other NATO countries in sanctioning Russia for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine was impossible because his economy is simply too dependent on Moscow.

No sign of relief from the Russian supply shock.

Even if the U.S. can ship more gas to Europe, the continent may struggle to receive it. Import terminals are located in coastal areas, where there are fewer pipeline connections for distributing it. And if all Europe’s facilities were operating at capacity, the amount of gas would likely be only about two-thirds of what Russia delivers through pipelines.

Vladimir Putin demanded “unfriendly” countries buy gas in rubles rather than dollars or euros in an attack against US global hegemony.

Boris Johnson’s green agenda appears to have fallen by the wayside, with the British PM now pushing for a so-called ‘dash to nuclear’.

In an apparent move of desperation, Germany has agreed to a gas deal with Islamist Qatar to try and wean itself off Russian energy.

Hollywood celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Jane Fonda are protesting a Canadian natural gas pipeline that they claim represents a threat to the climate and indigenous rights.

The U.S. rig count remained frozen in place and the Canadian rig count fell.

British energy bills look set to increase some 14 times faster than British wages in 2022, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned.

MILAN (AP) – Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging ground to a halt as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent natural gas prices skyrocketing.

Germany will close all of its nuclear power plants by the end of this year, despite the nation’s already crippling addiction to Russian natural gas.

Households in Britain are facing the worst decline in their real income in decades, as energy prices cause inflation to soar.

With Russia cut out of most of the things it could buy with euros, it may well decide to stop selling Europe natural gas.

Josh Mandel said oppression of political dissidents in Canada was a “beta test” for incoming persecution of their American counterparts.

Europeans should be turning down their thermostats to help fight the Ruskies, according to a new report published by one OECD group.

Port members from one UK trade union have asked the UK’s Transport Secretary to turn around two cargo ships carrying Russian gas, saying that they “did not want to touch the cargo”.

As the EU bans Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system, a bank linked to the sale of Russian gas is said to be exempt from sanctions.

During these seven days of Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine, we’ve sent this same Putin during those same seven days close to a half-billion dollars!

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) weighed in on the conflict in Ukraine as Russia invades, asserting that President Biden is failing to hit Vladimir Putin where it hurts: The gas pump.

The UK should resume fracking for natural gas with “the vigour of a national war effort” to ensure its energy independence, Tory MPs said.

Despite tough talk over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is squabbling internally over whether to include luxury goods and diamonds in sanctions, while there is reluctance on all sides to restrict energy imports.

Gerhard Schröder, the former left-leaning Chancellor of Germany, has been nominated to the board of a Russian state-owned gas company.

State-owned Polish gas company PGNiG has confirmed the purchase of a large shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States, which it will transfer on to Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that he was seeking to expand an already 15-year contract with Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas energy company, following a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Europe’s ‘heavy dependence’ on Russian gas for energy has left nations on the continent scrambling for alternatives over supply fears.

The gas crisis isn’t letting up. Reserves are low, prices high, customers hit with higher bills. Russian isn’t selling gas like it used to.

The European Commission has issued a draft recommendation including nuclear energy and natural gas on a list of investments that qualify as “green” energy.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc´s plans for a climate-friendly future.

Greta Thunberg, alongside other climate crazies, has decried the possible inclusion of nuclear and gas in the EU’s green investment playbook.

The New York City Council on Wednesday voted to ban natural gas lines in new buildings as a way to combat so-called climate change.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday reportedly blocked President Biden’s plan to terminate all future offshore oil and gas drilling in Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico waters.

Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing for reinstating sanctions against Russia for the pipeline it is building to export natural gas to Germany.

A cold winter would send natural gas prices up 46 percent and heating oil prices up 54 percent, according to the Department of Energy.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that natural gas prices “are high” because “the supplies are not as robust as they have been.” And “this is all coming off,” “a real downturn in the

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused a CNBC reporter of purposefully acting as if she did not hear his answer to her question regarding Russia’s supply of natural gas to Europe, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Thursday.