(Natural News) The West’s forced transition away from reliable fossil fuel energy into “green” energy alternatives has proven to be disastrous. And thanks to the war in Ukraine, Western economies are finally waking up to that fact. As we reported, the European Union (EU) is slated to bring oil and gas production into the green […]

(Natural News) Almost immediately after Germany announced that it is restarting its coal-fired power plants to deal with the ongoing energy crisis it helped create, The Netherlands announced that it is following suit. After proudly going “green,” these two Western European countries have come to the realization that fossil fuels are, in fact, necessary to […]

(Natural News) Since much of Europe is refusing to play ball with Russia by paying for natural gas in rubles, a massive energy crisis is unfolding. And the solution, at least in Germany, is to abandon the “green” energy agenda and revert back to coal. You read that right: Western Europe, the poster child for […]

(Natural News) The European prices of natural gas further rose as Russia cut shipments to top buyers in Germany, Italy and France. The June 20 data from Intercontinental Exchange, a company that operates global financial exchanges, shows that the European benchmark for natural gas, the Dutch TTF front-month gas futures contracts, rose about 4.2 percent to […]

(Natural News) The German government is planning to reopen several coal-fired power plants as the country’s energy supply continues to be strangled by Russia. Germany’s energy troubles began when the country followed the United States and most of the West in passing economic sanctions against Russia and providing military support for Ukraine. Russia retaliated by cutting […]

(Natural News) We have been warning since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that one of the negative long-term effects of imposing massive economic sanctions on Moscow would be the dismantling of the U.S. petrodollar-dominated global financial system, and that is exactly what is happening. Not only is Russia continuing to finance its war […]

(Natural News) European buyers are expanding shipments of coal from across the world amidst talks of European Union ban on Russian imports and the struggle to ease stiff gas supplies. The European Commission on Tuesday, April 5, suggested new sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, along with a ban on buying Russian coal and on Russian ships entering EU ports. […]

(Natural News) An analysis of the West’s sanctions against Russia that was published last week is warning that the longer they continue, the better the chances the world will experience a cycle of hyperinflation that will lead to widespread food insecurity and massive unrest. The analytical report, published on Doug Casey’s International Man website, begins […]

(Natural News) China, the world’s biggest polluter, has been taking drastic steps in a bid to clean up and fight so-called climate change. Last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised the world after pledging to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Experts believe the ambitious goal could help significantly slow global warming. But Xi offered almost […]

(Natural News) Efforts by “green” energy fanatics to stop all mining and burning of “dirty” coal in the West have backfired in a major way. According to reports, the push to “greenify” Western energy habits only ended up pushing more coal usage in the East – and particularly in China, which always seems to be […]