EU ‘sleep walking’ into new dependence on Russia, according to Norwegian fertilizer producer
EU ‘sleep walking’ into new dependence on Russia, according to Norwegian fertilizer producer
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The European Union is “sleep walking” into becoming dependent on Russian fertilizers, just as it did with natural gas, a leading producer has told the Financial Times.
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Nitrogen fertilizers, widely used for crop growth, are made with natural gas, and the EU is importing more and more of the crop nutrients from Russia, Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Norwegian chemical producer Yara International, told the outlet.
This sounds like scare-mongering to preserve market share and profit margins.
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“Fertiliser is the new gas,” Holsether said. “It is a paradox, the avowed aim is to reduce Europe’s dependency on Russia, and now we are sleepwalking into handing over critical food and fertilizing power to Russia,” he added. More scare-mongering
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Russia is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of nitrogen-containing fertilizers.
The EU Russian imports of urea, a common nitrogen-based crop nutrient, increased two times, in the year to June 2023 compared with the previous 12 months, the FT reported, citing data from Eurostat.
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While Russian urea imports have decreased since the start of 2024, they still account for about a third of the total urea brought into the EU.
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According to the European Commission, the EU imported 24% of its total nitrogen fertilizer supply from Russia, with Egypt as the second-largest supplier at 22%.
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Nitrogen-based crop nutrients are produced by mixing urea with hydrogen produced from natural gas at high temperature and pressure.
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A spike in natural gas prices in 2022 following Western sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict also increased fertilizer prices, hitting European farmers financially; aka blowback
Moscow meanwhile saw its export revenue surge 70% in 2022, which helps pay for many things, including the Ukraine imbroglio.
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Fertilizer prices have decreased since then, along with natural gas prices, but Europe’s fertilizer industry is still struggling, because Russian imports costs much less and as a result take a bigger share of the market, Holsether said. He is worried about his sales and profits
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Western countries have not imposed any sanctions on Russia’s food and fertilizer exports since the start of its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022.
Moscow complained however, that food and fertilizer exports are hampered by OTHER sanctions, which make it harder:
1) for traders to process payments and
2) obtain ships and insurance and destination harbor services.
The refusal by the US/EU to lift those sanctions caused Russia not to enter into a NEW grain agreement with Ukraine. Grain exports of Ukraine have been reduced, as a result.
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Comment by Willem Post on May 6, 2024 at 9:41am
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The elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have combined to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using the unscientific hoax of "CO2 causes global warming".
The hoax is based on fossil fuels and CO2 being the villains
However, CO2 greens the earth, creates flora and fauna, including us, and increases crop yields per acre, and reduces desert areas.
We need more CO2, as proven by plant growth in greenhouses with 1000 to 1200 ppm CO2
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The West’s scam includes wind/solar/batteries/hydrogen/CO2 extraction/EVs/air-source heat pumps, etc., to enrich/reward world elites, who will continue to fly their planes and sail their yachts
No command/control, choking restrictions off any kind on them!!
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These elitists caused the impoverishment of the EU, especially the UK and Germany., which are overrun by millions of scruffy, poor, inexperienced, uneducated, culturally-different folks, from all over, crossing borders, or secretly flown in, unvetted, to get free work permits, free phones, and free debit cards, and free housing, and free sucking from various leftist/Democrat-run government programs.
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The elites want to impose their no-fossil-fuel misery on the rules-based world to the glory of the Golden Billion in The Garden of Eden.
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However, fast-growing BRISC, with 11 members and 20 applicants, including China, India, Russia, etc., are not playing along with the multi-$trillion per year hoax and scam, and the demonizing of fossil fuels.
In fact, they know it is a Western, rules-based, insanity, to impoverish them..
Excerpt:
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...Important Role of CO2 for Flora and Fauna Growth
Plants require require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2
As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts.
The current CO2 needs to at least double or triple
Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, which is due to many causes, such as fossil CO2, flora CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
CO2 emissions of fossil fuels are a blessing.
CO2 has increased from about 296 ppm in 1900 to 423 ppm at end 2023. It:
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1) Increased world greening by at least 10 to 15%, as measured by satellites since 1979.
2) Increased world fauna
3) Increased crop yields per acre.
4) Reduced desert areas
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-c...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-not-pollution-i...
.Benefits of CO2
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, in accordance with Henry’s Law
The sea water contains 3% salt, NaCl, by weight.
The CO2 continuously combines with salt to form numerous Ca, Cl, O2 and H2 compounds that support ocean flora and fauna.
As a result, the oceans are the major sink of CO2 from human and natural sources in the TS.
At least 80% of new CO2 in the TS, human and natural, is added to the oceans
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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