Frenchman Dominique Reynié, director of Fondalpol (Foundation for Political Innovation), who recently published a study entitled “Freedom: The Challenge of the Century”. And in a TV interview he said about the report: “We found funds from Gazprom, especially for some environmental NGOs, who provided ministers to some European countries, who then initiated some kind of quid pro quo by defending the nuclear phaseout Energy”.
Reynié’s accusation was immediately picked up by Contrepoint, one of the most important French libertarian online magazines, which published an article underlining the suspicion. So much so that as early as 2014, thenNATO Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he had “met allies who can report that Russia has been actively engaging with socalled nongovernmental organizations environmental organizations working against shale gas as part of its sophisticated information and disinformation operations to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.
In fact, exploiting shale gas through fracking, the magazine notes, would have “automatically reduced Europe’s purchases and dependence on Russian gas, particularly its gas giant Gazprom. The same applies to “nuclear power, which offers westerners an abundant source of energy that does not emit CO2 and is an alternative to Russian gas”.
The same thing, Contrepoints notes, was happening in the United States, so much so that Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, reported in 2016: “We clashed with bogus environmental groups, and I’m a great environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians… And so, in 2017, two US lawmakers sent a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury asking for an investigation into Russian government funding of American environmental groups through a company in Bermuda.
The magazine then names the NGOs that received the funds, explaining that in the US the motion of the two lawmakers has been openly blamed, including the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. In Germany, Contrepoints writes, “it is clear that the major environmental organizations WWF, BUND and NABU have set up an ‘environmental’ foundation with the company NordStream, a Gazprom subsidiary”.
And as for Belgium: “The current Federal Energy Minister, Christinne Van der Straeten, from the Green Party GROEN, was a coowner 50% shareholder of a law firm before taking office. The client was none other than Gazprom, the Russian gas company. After becoming Minister, Christinne Van der Straeten herself worked to completely dismantle Belgium’s civilian nuclear park.
The French newspaper concludes by clarifying that “the presumption of innocence applies to everyone”; but after the energy shock that Europe suffered and after the aggression of Ukraine by Russia, “whose army is financed literally from European funds through the purchase of Russian gas, which accounts for 40% of the gas consumed in Europe”, it is necessary” . Bringing light to the media and the judiciary “on this matter.
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