ASP’s Nick Cunningham Quoted in U.S. News and World Report
ASP’s Nick Cunningham was quoted in an article by Meg Handley of the U.S. News and World Report about natural gas exports. ASP published Nick Cunningham’s report on March 5, “The Geopolitical Implications of U.S. Natural Gas Exports,” which made the case that exporting LNG could contribute to U.S. foreign policy goals. The article in U.S. News and World Report also looked at this issue. From the article:
For starters, a more diverse pool of natural gas export sources has the potential to reframe many of the tenuous geopolitical relationships across the globe centered on energy supply. Europe remains highly dependent on Russia for its natural gas, a country that is no stranger to using energy as a political tool, says Nick Cunningham, policy analyst and author of the ASP report.
“Over the past couple of years, Russia has shut off pipelines to Europe several times ostensibly over pricing disagreements,” Cunningham says. “But the underlying motive is to send a signal to Europe that [Russia] has leverage over them.”
Essentially, European countries are more or less beholden to a key energy supplier that can be described as unreliable at best, Cunningham adds.
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