Investigative journalist Martin Boudot has followed the uranium route: from Niger, where it is blasted from the mines of Arlit to Narbonne, in the south of France, where it is converted into fuel for nuclear power plants. The observation is the same: soaring levels of radioactivity, residents exposed, worried, victims of long-term poisoning and who are unable to make themselves heard by the authorities as well as the operating company Orano (ex-Areva ).
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US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, an embargo on US oil and gas imports. Joe Biden assured him: this decision will “deal a new powerful blow to Vladimir Putin” and to the financing of his war once morest Ukraine. Great Britain immediately followed in the footsteps of the Americans and announced that it too was going to deprive itself of Russian gas and oil.
Europe is more cautious: 40% of the gas and 26% of the oil it consumes come from Russia. The debate is particularly lively in Germany, which depends on Moscow for more than half of its imports.
Can we free ourselves from this dependence on Russian hydrocarbons? How soon and at what price? Can this have a direct and immediate effect on the war in Ukraine?
Decryption with :
– Anne-Sophie Corbeauresearcher at Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
– Thierry Brosprofessor at Sciences Poenergy expert.
Sanctions against Moscow: “Uncertainty weighs on oil prices”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Russian forces are continuing their offensive on several cities in Ukraine on Wednesday. Energy prices, of which Russia is one of the world’s main suppliers, continue to soar day following day. To try to contain this increase, the member countries of OPEC meet this Wednesday, with the ambition to raise the world production of black gold. Analysis by Philippe Sébille-Lopez, director of the Geopolia firm, specialist in energy geopolitics and author of the book Geopolitics of Oil”.
The war in Ukraine propels gas to new records in Europe. For the moment, Russian hydrocarbon exports are not part of European sanctions, but in retaliation for Western sanctions, Moscow might reduce or even suspend its gas deliveries to the EU. While winter is not yet over, the 27 members will find it difficult to compensate for Russian deliveries, at least in the short term.