News Digest Item
14 Sep 2018

US government’s op-ed “a shameless diplomatic sales pitch“ – opinion

Handelsblatt Global

In an opinion piece, David Reay reacts to the op-ed on liquefied natural gas (LNG) by US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in the Handelsblatt on 13 September. “The pair offers up a shameless diplomatic sales pitch to convince Germany to import more [LNG] from the US”, which it does not even need, writes Reay.

Find the opinion piece in English here.

For background, read the CLEW news piece Qatar Petroleum in talks with Uniper and RWE over German LNG terminal, the factsheet Gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 links Germany to Russia, but splits Europe, and the dossier The role of gas in Germany's energy transition.

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