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Perry Tells Russia To Stop Using Energy As Economic Weapon<\/a><\/h3>\n\"Nord<\/picture>\n
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The United States welcomes competition from Russia on the global energy markets, but Russia can no longer use energy as an economic weapon, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said<\/a>on Thursday during his meeting with Russia\u2019s Energy Minister Alexander Novak in Moscow.<\/p>\n

At the meeting, \u201cSecretary Perry also expressed his disappointment and concern about Russia\u2019s continued attempts to infiltrate the American electric grid,\u201d a statement from the U.S. Department of Energy on the meeting says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary Perry made clear that while the United States welcomes competition with Russia in energy markets across Europe, Asia and elsewhere, Moscow can no longer use energy as an economic weapon. The United States is now in a position to offer these nations an alternative source of supply,\u201d the DOE said.<\/p>\n

Russian gas giant Gazprom, which holds a third of European natural gas market, has in the past cut supply to Europe via Ukraine due to disputes over pricing, and has prevented customers from reselling natural gas, dominating most of the markets in central and southeastern Europe.<\/p>\n

Referring to the controversial Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project to Germany, \u201cPresident Trump has made clear that the United States staunchly opposes the Nordstream 2 Pipeline, which would expand a single-source gas artery deep into Europe,\u201d the DOE said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. supports the desire of European nations to minimize their dependence on Russia as a single energy supplier, and look forward to increasing LNG exports to the region, as announced by President Trump and EU President Juncker in June.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his visit to Moscow, when asked if the U.S. could impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and if more energy sanctions were being planned, Secretary Perry told reporters<\/a> \u201cYes to your first question and yes to your second.\u201d However, sanctions are not where the U.S. and Russia want to go, the AP quoted Secretary Perry as saying.<\/p>\n

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Perry Tells Russia To Stop Using Energy As Economic Weapon The United States welcomes competition from Russia on the global energy markets, but Russia can no longer use energy as an economic weapon, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry saidon Thursday during his meeting with Russia\u2019s Energy Minister Alexander Novak in Moscow. At the meeting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[17914,21660,281,352,542,5332,21661,694,14603,827],"class_list":["post-37789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-alexander-novak","tag-economic-weapon","tag-europe","tag-gazprom","tag-moscow","tag-oilprice-com","tag-rick-perry","tag-russia","tag-tsvetana-paraskova","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37790,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37789\/revisions\/37790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}