Kiev Fights in Ukraines Southeast for Shale Gas Deposits to Be Controlled by US
The Yuzivska shale gas field is at the border between the Kharkov and Donetsk regions. The resources are estimated at over four trillion cubic metres
By Global Research News
MOSCOW The control over Ukraines southeast is important for Kiev first of all because of the shale gas deposits, which Western countries should be developing, head of the State Dumas international affairs committee Aleksey Pushkov said on Saturday.
Kiev is fighting in Ukraines east for the gas reserves: Germany says the reserves make 5,578 billion cubic metres (bcm) [the U.S. reserves are 8,976 bcm]. Control will be from the U.S., he wrote on Twitter.
The Yuzivska shale gas field is at the border between the Kharkov and Donetsk regions. The resources are estimated at over four trillion cubic metres. In May 2012, British-Netherlands Shell won the competition for development. Another company, certified for development of deposits in the Dnepropetrovsk-Donetsk area is Ukraines Burisma, where recently son of the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden became a member of the board of directors.
Residents of Slavyansk, which is the centre of the Yuzivska deposit, within several past year organised protests against development of the deposit. They even planned to organise a referendum on the issue.
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