The Coming Storm...RESOURCE POLITICS: How Russia could change the global energy market

摘要

Speaking with Marshall Goldman, author of'Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia," one gets the impression that coal isn't one of Goldman's favorite topics of discussion. The Wellesley College economics professor and senior scholar at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian Studies would rather tout the benefits of developing nuclear and renewable energy sources. However, Goldman realizes that in the giant "chess game" of resource politics coal is a vital player. "It is important for nations like the United States to step forward and move ahead quickly to develop clean coal technology, " Goldman told Coal Americas. "Clean coal technology, reviving nuclear energy, developing renewable energy sources and conservation are necessary to help Western nations maintain their culture and quality of life. Russia is becoming an energy superpower that can exercise great economic and political influence over world affairs. Unless the United States and Europe move away from oil quickly, they could find themselves under Russian domination. A new world order could be coming very soon, one that isn 't favorable to the United States and our way of life."