Gazprom plans Africa gas grab

[phantom power]

Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy group, is seeking to win access to vast energy reserves in Nigeria in a move that will heighten concerns among western governments over its increasingly powerful grip on gas supplies to Europe.

A senior Nigerian oil industry official, who declined to be named, said the company was offering to invest in energy infrastructure in return for the chance to develop some of the biggest gas deposits in the world.

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Gazprom's efforts are likely to cause concern among European governments anxious about their dependence on Russia for a quarter of gas imports. The country's readiness to cut off supplies has alarmed EU governments.

"What Gazprom is proposing is mind-boggling," the Nigerian oil official told the Financial Times. "They're talking tough and saying the west has taken advantage of us in the last 50 years and they're offering us a better deal ... They are ready to beat the Chinese, the Indians and the Americans."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22508570

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Here it comes....

:hurts:

[cliss]

2. Resource wars.

We're there.

It's been predicted that the upcoming wars will be about resources. Oil, natural gas, water, anything else that can be Smashed & grabbed.

LOTS of people are going to be in the way, unfortunately. Like a big portion of Africa.

[tom_paine]

3. The Grand Chessboard of the 21st Century probably won't end any better

than the Grand Chessboard of the 1890s ended some 25 years later, with...what was that War to End All Wars called again?

Even IF we have 25 years to wait for the end of this version of The Grand Chessboard, against a backdrop of environmental collapse and 8 billion people or more, it will be quite a hideous show.

"I know not what weapons World War III willbe fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein