Some News Articles About Russia Interference

Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests, New York Times, NOV. 30, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/world/russian-money-suspected-behind-fracking-protests.html

Is Putin funding anti-fracking groups? Republicans think so — and so did Hillary Clinton
https://www.salon.com/2017/07/16/is-putin-funding-anti-fracking-groups-republicans-think-so-and-so-did-hillary-clinton/

These provocative images show Russian trolls sought to inflame debate over climate change, fracking and Dakota pipeline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/01/congress-russians-trolls-sought-to-inflame-u-s-debate-on-climate-change-fracking-and-dakota-pipeline/

Intelligence: Putin Is Funding the Anti-Fracking Campaign
http://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-putin-funding-anti-fracking-campaign-547873

Time to Shine a Light on Putin’s American Propaganda Arm
http://www.newsweek.com/time-shine-light-putins-american-propaganda-arm-542642

Putin Is Funding Green Groups to Discredit Natural Gas Fracking
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredit-natural-gas-fracking-635052, Newsweek,  7/11/17

”The Sierra Club used the Chesapeake Energy money, donated mainly by the company’s chief executive from 2007 to 2010, for its Beyond Coal campaign to block new coal-fired power plants and shutter old ones..” New York Times, FEB. 13, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/earth/after-disclosure-of-sierra-clubs-gifts-from-gas-driller-a-roiling-debate.html

Russia’s Quiet War Against European Fracking, Foreign Policy, June 20, 2014
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/20/russias-quiet-war-against-european-fracking/

Gasland, Russia and Hysteria Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing, Ambassador Keith C. Smith (ret.) ,February 2014
http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2014/0105/op/op02smith_frac.html

Russia in secret plot against fracking, Nato chief says, Telegraph, 19 Jun 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking

Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State-Owned Russian Oil Company Rosneft, owned by the Russian state, is the world's largest oil company / AP Washington Free Beacon, January 27, 2015 5:00 am
http://freebeacon.com/issues/foreign-firm-funding-u-s-green-groups-tied-to-state-owned-russian-oil-company/

Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Allegations US Environmentalists May Have Secretly Taken Russian Cash
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-allegations-us-environmentalists-may-have-secretly-taken-russian-cash/

Russia in secret plot against fracking, Nato chief says–“Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia was mounting a sophisticated "disinformation campaign" aimed at undermining attempts to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas”,Telegrapph, 19 jun 2014 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/fracking/10911942/Russia-in-secret-plot-against-fracking-Nato-chief-says.html

Saudi Billionaire Prince: Fracking Competitively Threatens ‘Any Oil Producing Country in the World’ CNS News, January 6, 2014 - 5:35 PM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/saudi-billionaire-prince-fracking-competitively-threatens-any-oil

Leaked emails show Hillary Clinton blaming Russians for funding ‘phony’ anti-fracking groups
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/10/clinton-blames-russians-anti-fracking-groups/

Russia’s Financial Support for Anti-Fracking Groups Is No Coincidence
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/anti-fracking-groups-russia-secret-funding-protects-kremlin-interests/

Lawmakers Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/10/lawmakers-cite-evidence-russia-colluded-with-u-s-green-groups-to-block-frackin/

Key Republicans call for probe to see if Russia funded anti-fracking groups, Washington Times,  Sunday, July 9, 2017
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/9/lamar-smith-randy-weber-anti-fracking-groups-fundi/

Green Groups Go Red, Team With Putin To Fight Fracking 
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/environmental-groups-take-russian-money-to-oppose-fracking/

Matt Damon’s Anti-Fracking Movie Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation
“Promised Land was also produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview’s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which runs PR for Participant Media, the company that developed the film fund backing Promised Land, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.”
http://dailysignal.com/2012/09/28/matt-damons-anti-fracking-movie-financed-by-oil-rich-arab-nation/

The credits on Gasland say it partly financed by one of the Middle East oil producers.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2012/09/28/matt-damons-anti-fracking-movie-financed-by-oil-rich-arab-nation/

Stronger Law on Foreign Agents Eyed Amid Russia’s Links to Green Groups
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/14/stronger-law-on-foreign-agents-eyed-amid-russian-links-to-green-groups/

Lamar Smith Claims Russians Are Backing Environmental Groups Attacking Fracking
https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/06_29_2017%20CLS%20%26%20Weber%20-%20Mnuchin.pdf

Treasury Dept Asked To Investigate Reports That Russia Funneled Millions To US Environmental Groups
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/07/treasury-dept-asked-to-investigate-reports-that-russia-funneled-millions-to-us-environmental-groups/

Smith and Weber quote sources saying the Russian government has been colluding with environmental groups to circulate “disinformation” and “propaganda” aimed at undermining hydraulic fracturing. Commonly called fracking, the process makes it possible to access natural gas deposits.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/10/lawmakers-cite-evidence-russia-colluded-with-u-s-green-groups-to-block-frackin/

The Russian Collusion Story the Media Ignores - Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups shows how collusion is done.
https://spectator.org/the-russian-collusion-story-the-media-ignores/

U.S. Energy Markets: The Real Russian Meddling the Media Ignores - Still counting on the American left’s useful idiots.
https://spectator.org/u-s-energy-markets-the-real-russian-meddling-the-media-ignores/?

Hillary and Lamar: A Meeting of Minds on Russian Collusion - America’s anti-fracking enviros had a strange benefactor.
https://spectator.org/hillary-and-lamar-a-revealing-meeting-of-minds-on-russian-collusion/

The Centre for European Studies found that the Russian government has invested $95 million in NGOs campaigning against shale gas. Russia Today television ran endless anti-fracking stories, including one that “frackers are the moral equivalent of paedophiles”. The US Director of National Intelligence stated that “RT runs anti-fracking programming … reflective of the Russian Government’s concern about the impact of fracking and US natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to Gazprom’s profitability.” Pro-Russian politicians such as Lord Truscott (married to a Russian army colonel’s daughter) made speeches in parliament against fracking.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-2019/the-plot-against-fracking/