"Give me back the air" "Give me back the air" "Give me back the water" "Give me back the water" A group of environmentalists are gathering in protest at the gates of a major power plant in Detroit.
Although the protest was attended by a small number of people, only a few thousand, they blocked the gates of the power plant.
On the road leading to the outside world outside the power plant, one car after another carrying coal was blocked in the road.
From time to time, the drivers looked at the protesting crowd ahead, praying that the gang would get out of the way and let them get 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 far greater than the cost of natural gas.
For U.S. power plants, coal remains the most important fuel for power plants.
Although power plants are generally more profitable and the cost of natural gas is cheaper, it would cost a lot of money to convert coal-fired power units to natural gas-powered ones.
Not only that, but the cost of power plant shutdown during the renovation period is a significant expense, so most power plants do not have plans to use natural gas.
Seryosha now has a large amount of natural gas resources in his hands, and for the Gorky Group, the more industrially developed regions such as the United States and Western Europe use natural gas as the main energy source, the more profits the Gorky Group will earn.
But how can these power plants spontaneously invest large sums of money to convert coal-fired units into natural gas units?
That's why Seryosha financed environmental groups to protest in front of the power plant.
Beginning in the late eighties, environmentalism began to emerge in developed Western Europe and North America, gradually becoming a force that could influence politics and votes.
Especially after the British Antarctic expedition team discovered the hole in the ozone layer at 60 degrees south latitude in 1985, it attracted the attention of the whole world.
It has also led to people's attention to the pollution of the atmosphere.
Seryosha is not an environmentalist, and manipulating those environmental groups to profit for himself is Seryosha's ultimate goal.
The only thing in America that can keep politicians led by the nose is the ballot.
Since Seryosha set his sights on the huge power market in the United States, on the one hand, Seryosha has continued to buy natural gas fields in Texas and build gas pipelines on a large scale, and on the other hand, Karim has begun to provide large sums of money to environmental groups, especially those concerned about air pollution.
At Karim's behalf, dozens of environmental groups began to pay attention to the pollution of power plants in the United States.
In particular, thermal power plants, which are now the main force, have become the prey of environmental 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, and from the perspective of environmental protection, natural gas power generation has inherent advantages.
Although the media in the United States has not yet been involved by the Gorky Group, as long as there is money, it is not difficult to create sustained attention to a certain social hot spot in a short period of time.
It is under this subtle arrangement that the American media began to subtly convey a message to the audience in front of the television, that is, thermal power generation is endangering our health and destroying our environment.
The shots of billowing black smoke from the towering chimneys are chilling, even though most of them were shot in the fifties and sixties.
As a result of the media's involvement, environmental groups have responded to their outrageous calls for coal-fired power plants, and in Detroit, the most developed region in the United States, angry environmentalists have begun to gather in front of large power plants, blocking the roads in front of the power plants and blocking the transportation of coal trucks.
The normal operation of many coal-fired power plants has been disrupted.
The U.S. power grid is mainly composed of three parts: the eastern power system of the United States, the western power system of the United States, and the power system of Texas.
These three power systems are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other, and under these three power systems, more than 180 power generation companies provide on-grid electricity.
That is to say, although the power grid system has been integrated, but the power generation companies are still scattered, if Seryosha intends to make a move, none of the more than 180 power generation companies is Seryosha's opponent.
In order to avoid the suspicion of the U.S.
Department of Energy due to excessive monopoly, Seryosha arranged for two of his companies to participate in the acquisition of the power grid, one is a natural gas group that has been deeply involved in the field of natural gas power generation for many years and already has its own natural gas deposits and gas pipelines, and the other is the British power company that Seryosha has been in the bag for many years.
In order to gain a cost advantage and avoid the huge costs caused by transporting natural gas from Leningrad to the United States, Seryosha used his Occidental Petroleum Company to reach a gas-for-gas agreement with BP, the world's largest oil company, that is, to use the share of natural gas obtained by Occidental Petroleum from the Soviet Union in exchange for BP's share of natural gas in North America, so as to replenish BP's natural gas reserves in Europe.
It also enriched the natural gas reserves of the Gorky consortium in the North American market.
Seryosha soon launched a buying spree in the U.S. power market, where he could satisfy the seller's bid at any cost for the coal-fired power plants he was willing to sell, and then Enron's gas pipeline would be directly connected to the plant, and for those that were not willing to sell, environmental groups would naturally intervene to disrupt their normal power generation activities, relying on this despicable means to make Enron all the way north from Texas, while British power companies went all the way west along the east coast of the United States, wantonly dumping the power producers of the United States.
Due to Enron's extremely low electricity prices, many large manufacturing companies in the United States, such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and Chrysler Motors, have begun to sign power cooperation agreements with Enron and British Power Companies, and a situation is emerging in the U.S. power market in which Enron and British Power are both strong. t1706231537: