Greenpeace reveals that France remains a major importer of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG), fertilizers, and uranium.
In 2024, France became the largest European importer of Russian LNG, with imports increasing by 80 percent compared to 2023, according to the report.
Between 2021 and 2023, imports of Russian fertilizers surged by 86 percent, as domestic production faltered due to gas shortages.
In the nuclear sector, French collaboration with Russia state-owned nuclear giant Rosatom remains intact.
Greenpeace accuses France of hiding behind Hungary’s veto on sanctioning Rosatom while continuing lucrative contracts with the corporation.
Nuclear power has mostly the same geopolitical dependencies like fossil fuels. In particular most of the currently mined uranium globally coming from Kazakhstan which remains in the Russian sphere of influence.
australia has pretty big uranium reserves; we just don’t really mine it because we are pretty anti-nuclear… our uranium is mined (10% of global supply) as a byproduct of other mining. if there were a deal made, we’d probably step up
Deals with Australia are a dangerous thing. See AUKUS. I’d be unsurprised to see the US leverage their outsized influence over AU to pressure France.
absolutely true… we’re completely captured by the US that’s for sure
Bad German! Bad!
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