Category: energy crisis

Germany to Keep Nuclear Plants Running Into 2023, Green Party Unhappy With Decision

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country’s three remaining nuclear plants to remain open beyond Dec. 31, a decision criticized by some of his coalition party members. The Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2, and Emsland nuclear power plants will remain in operation until April 15, 2023. Scholz has asked the Environment, Finance, and Economy ministries…


The Risks of a Global Financial Crisis

Commentary Almost three years ago, the masters of global finance and public health thought they had everything under control. They believed that they were carefully calibrating the machinery of power, pushing and pulling all the right levers, twisting and turning knobs on their control panels, to both manage a pandemic with a shutdown while mitigating…


Joe Biden’s Energy Crisis

Commentary The West is experiencing its third energy crisis. The first, in 1973, was caused by the near-quintupling of the price of crude oil by Gulf oil producers in response to America’s support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Their action brought an end to what the French call the trente glorieuses—the unprecedented post–World…


China Is Laughing at Us

Commentary Europe is rapidly de-industrializing. German factories are going dark. French and Dutch farmers can’t afford to heat greenhouses. Millions of Brits are facing energy poverty. And Americans are still struggling to put food on the table or pay their energy bills. These disasters largely all stem from Western leaders’ devotion to the cult of climate extremism, and the calamitous decisions to replace fossil…


Europe Braces for Phone Service Outages Ahead of Winter Energy Shortage

Mobile phones may go dark in Europe this winter due to the energy crisis potentially affecting much of the cellular network across the continent. The massive reduction of Russian gas supplies to Europe over the Ukraine conflict has led to the specter of power cuts, resulting in a panic among the European telecommunications industry, according…


How Green Policies Led to Europe’s Energy Crisis: Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle is one of Europe’s most influential economists and investment managers. He oversees over $6 billion in financial assets at Tressis Gestión in Spain. An expert in energy and energy policy, Lacalle is also the author of “The Energy World is Flat.” Lacalle says Europe’s energy crisis can’t be blamed on the Ukraine war…


[Premiering at 7 PM ET] How Green Policies Led to Europe’s Energy Crisis: Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle is one of Europe’s most influential economists and investment managers. He oversees over $6 billion in financial assets at Tressis Gestión in Spain. An expert in energy and energy policy, Lacalle is also the author of “The Energy World is Flat.” Lacalle says Europe’s energy crisis can’t be blamed on the Ukraine war…


UK Banks Prepping for Power Blackouts as Winter Energy Crisis Looms

Banks in the United Kingdom are preparing to again roll out lockdown plans used during the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to stave off potential power shortages this winter amid an energy crisis. A number of banks, lenders, building societies, and branch officers of overseas banks have been holding regular joint discussions and reexamining policies, such as…


Energy Rationing Hits Eiffel Tower as Paris Landmark Goes Dark to Save Power

Visitors to Paris this fall will be disappointed because the Eiffel Tower will go dark early to save power, amid the worst energy crisis to hit the continent in almost half a century. The tower is one out of the city’s many monuments and government buildings that will be plunged into darkness in the French…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ‘Setting the Table for Famine’—Michael Yon on the Energy Crisis, Food Shortages, Price Inflation, and the Human ‘South-Stream Pipeline’ to the U.S.

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