Soviet Godfather - v5 Chapter 253

“Return my air…”

“Return my air!”

“Return my water…”

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“Return my water!”

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At the gate of a large power plant in Detroit, a group of environmentalists are gathering here to protest. Although the number of people who participated in this protest was not large, only a few thousand, they blocked the entrance and exit of the power plant. On the road leading to the outside world outside the power plant, one after another coal-carrying cars were blocked on the road. From time to time, the drivers looked at the protesting crowd in front of them, praying that they could get out of the way and let them send coal to the power plant.

As the most developed capitalist country in the world, electricity is the lifeblood of American industry, but because the American power system has been accustomed to using coal as the main energy source for many years, the cost of using coal to generate electricity in the United States is much greater than that of natural gas. The cost of power generation. For power plants in the United States, coal is still the main fuel for power plants. Although the profits of power plants are generally high, and the cost of natural gas is even lower, if you want to transform a coal-fired generator set into a natural gas-driven generator set, it will cost a lot of transformation costs. Not only that, the loss caused by the shutdown of the power plant during the renovation period is a considerable expense. Therefore, most power plants have no plans to use natural gas.

Sergei now has a large amount of natural gas resources on hand. For the Gorky Group, the more industrially developed regions such as the United States and Western Europe, the more natural gas is used as the main energy source, the more profits the Gorky Group will make. But how can these power plants spontaneously invest large sums of money to transform coal-fired units into natural gas units? From the power plant’s point of view, they certainly won’t have this kind of motivation. That’s why Sergey Shah sponsored those environmental groups to protest and demonstrate at the gate of the power plant.

Since the late 1980s, environmentalism has gradually emerged in developed Western Europe and North America, and has gradually become a force that can influence politics and votes. Especially after the British Antarctic scientific expedition team observed a hole in the ozone layer in the 60th south latitude in 1985, it attracted worldwide attention. It also makes people start to pay attention to the pollution of the atmosphere.

Sergey Sha is not an environmentalist. Manipulating those environmental groups for his own benefit is the ultimate goal of Sergey Sha. There is only one thing in the United States that allows politicians to be led by the nose, and that is votes. Since Seriosha’s eyes on the huge U.S. electricity market, on the one hand Seriosha has continuously acquired natural gas fields in Texas and built natural gas pipelines on a large scale. On the other hand, Kalim has begun to promote environmental protection. Groups, especially environmental groups concerned about air pollution, provide large sums of money.

With Kalim’s arrangements, dozens of environmental protection groups have begun to pay attention to the pollution of American power plants. Especially the thermal power plant, which is now the main force, has become the prey of environmental protection groups.

The pollutants caused by thermal power plants are mainly exhaust gas, waste water, and waste residue. These three pollutants are not available in natural gas power generation. From the perspective of environmental protection, natural gas power generation has inherent advantages.

With the help of Kalim, the major media in the United States suddenly began to pay attention to the pollution of the three wastes of power plants. Although the US media has not yet been involved in the Gorky Group, as long as there is money, they want to cause harm in a short period of time. Continuous attention to a certain social hot spot is not difficult at all.

It is precisely under this imperceptible arrangement that the American media began to imperceptibly convey a message to the audience in front of the TV that thermal power generation is endangering our health and destroying our environment. The shots of billowing black smoke from the towering chimneys are simply chilling, although most of those shots were taken in the 1950s and 1960s.

Because of the media’s intervention, environmental groups’ angry calls for coal-fired power plants have aroused great repercussions. In areas such as Detroit, where the US auto industry is most developed, angry environmentalists have gathered in front of the large power plants. They use their bodies to block the road in front of the power plant and block the transportation of coal vehicles. The normal operation of many coal-fired power plants has been disrupted.

The national power grid is mainly composed of three parts: the eastern US power system, the western US power system, and the Texas power system. These three power systems are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other. Under these three power systems, more than 180 power generation companies provide on-grid power. That is to say, although the grid system has been integrated, the power generation companies are still a piece of sand. If Sergei intends to make a move, none of the more than 180 power generation companies will be Sergei’s opponent~www.mtlnovel.com~ in order to avoid this. Excessive monopoly has caused the US Department of Energy’s suspicion. For the acquisition of the power grid, Sergei arranged two companies under it to participate. One is that he has been cultivating in the field of natural gas power generation for many years and has his own natural gas deposits and transmission The other is the British Electricity Company, which Sergei has included in the bag years ago.

In order to obtain a cost advantage and avoid the huge expenses incurred by transporting natural gas from Leningrad to the United States for thousands of miles, Sergei used its Western Petroleum Company to reach an agreement with the world’s number one oil company BP. The gas exchange agreement uses the natural gas share acquired by Occidental Petroleum from the Soviet Union in exchange for BP’s natural gas share in North America. This not only supplements BP’s natural gas reserves in Europe, but also enriches the Golgi consortium’s presence in North America. Natural gas reserves on the market.

With everything ready, Sergey Shah quickly launched a round of acquisition frenzy in the American power market. For those coal-fired power plants that are willing to sell, Sergey Sha can satisfy the seller’s bid regardless of cost, and then Enron Group’s natural gas pipeline. It will be directly connected to this power plant, and for those power plants that are unwilling to sell, it is natural that environmental groups have come forward to disrupt their normal power generation activities. Relying on this despicable method, the Enron Group has gone all the way from Texas to the north. The British power company is going west along the east coast of the United States, swallowing American power production companies.

Due to the extremely low electricity prices of the Enron Group, many large American manufacturing companies, such as Ford Motor, General Motors, and Chrysler Automobiles, have begun to sign power cooperation agreements with Enron Group and the British Electricity Company. In the US electricity market, Enron and the United Kingdom The situation of double power companies is taking shape. …