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what, exactly, do you believe the author dreamed up?
I notice they were able to organize facts behind their wild mishmash
are you able to organize some yourself?
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you can read any of my posts in this thread and enjoy my well organized and thoughtfully written comments.
But to your question, I'll help you out since you missed it
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For this ploy to work, it's important not to look too closely at details. Like the fact that much of the gas probably won't make it to Europe
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(she states right there she's dreaming up her diatribe)
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selling a temporary glut of fracked gas on the world market,
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(there is no temporary glut of fracked gas, that's completely made up.)
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And most of all, it's important not to notice that building the infrastructure necessary to export gas on this scale would take many years in permitting and construction ? a single LNG terminal can carry a $7bn price tag, must be fed by a massive, interlocking web of pipelines and compressor stations, and requires its own power plant just to generate energy sufficient to liquefy the gas through super-cooling. By the time these massive industrial projects are up and running, Germany and Russia may well be fast friends.
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(I hope I don't need to explain this to you, _RIchard_)
conclusion: the article is fantasy. it's a what-if based on made up details.
Finally, the author, naomi klein is a career anti-global capitalist making her living from writing books criticizing global capitalism, her agenda is very clear.