Subject: Fwd: Joe Biden's Conflict of Interest In Ukraine Shale Gas Drilling
From: "Alan Apter" <[email-masked]>
To: "Vadym Pozharskyi" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Devon Archer" <[email-masked]>, "Heather King" <[email-masked]>, "Toohey, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:48:12 +0100

see below - sent to me today

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From: Jim Ainsworth <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM
Subject: Joe Biden's Conflict of Interest In Ukraine Shale Gas Drilling
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 *Company In Which Joe Biden’s Son Is Director Prepares To Drill Shale Gas
In East Ukraine*
 *Ukraine (or rather its puppetmasters) has decided to let no crisis,
(staged or otherwise) including civil war, go to waste..*
  *[image: Company In Which Joe Biden's Son Is Director Prepares To Drill
Shale Gas In East Ukraine]*

*by Zero Hedge
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/company-which-joe-bidens-son-director-prepares-drill-shale-gas-east-ukraine>
| July 26, 2014 *

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  *Recall what we said earlier today: the proxy Ukraine war, just like that
in Syria preceding it, “is** all about energy*
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/first-syrian-rebels-now-hamas-qatar-once-again-emerges-mystery-us-backed-sponsor-war>
*.”*

*Recall also the **following chart *
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-27/ukraine-deep-state-analysis>*showing
Ukraine’s shale gas deposits, keeping in mind that the **Dnieper-Donets
basin *
<http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-111/issue-02/regular-features/journally-speaking/ukraine-eying-shale-gas.html>*which
lies in the hotly contested eastern part of the nation and where as
everyone knows by now a bloody civil war is raging, is the major oil and
gas producing region of Ukraine accounting for approximately 90 per cent of
Ukrainian production and **according to EIA *
<http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-111/issue-02/regular-features/journally-speaking/ukraine-eying-shale-gas.html>*may
have 42 tcf of shale gas resources technically recoverable from 197 tcf of
risked shale gas in place.*

*Finally, **recall our story from May *
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/farce-complete-joe-bidens-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer>*that
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, just joined the board of the largest Ukraine gas
producer Burisma Holdings. From the **press release*
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/farce-complete-joe-bidens-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer>
*:*

 * Hunter Biden appointed head of legal *

* affairs at Ukraine’s largest private gas        producer, Burisma
Holdings. /                     Burisma.com*

 *R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings’ legal unit and will
provide support for the Company among international organizations. On his
new appointment, he commented: “Burisma’s track record of innovations and
industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be a
strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board,
I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of
transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international
expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit
the people of Ukraine.”*

*R. Hunter Biden is also a well-known public figure. He is chairman of the
Board of the World Food Programme U.S.A., together with the world’s largest
humanitarian organization, the United Nations World Food Programme. In this
capacity he offers assistance to the poor in developing countries, fighting
hunger and poverty, and helping to provide food and education to 300
million malnourished children around the world.*

*Company Background:*

*Burisma Holdings is a privately owned oil and gas company with assets in
Ukraine and operating in the energy market since 2002. To date, the company
holds a portfolio with permits to develop fields in the Dnieper-Donets, the
Carpathian and the Azov-Kuban basins. In 2013, the daily gas production
grew steadily and at year-end amounted to 11.6 thousand BOE (barrels of oil
equivalent – incl. gas, condensate and crude oil), or 1.8 million m3 of
natural gas. The company sells these volumes in the domestic market through
traders, as well as directly to final consumers.*

*Now put it all together and what happens next should be rather clear.*

** * **

*Still confused? It’s very simple, really.*

*In a nutshell Ukraine (or **rather its puppetmasters*
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-06/fuck-eu-us-state-department-blasts-europe-revealed-alleged-mastermind-behind-ukraine>*)
has decided to let no crisis, (staged or otherwise) including civil war, go
to waste, and while the fighting rages all around, Ukrainian troopers are
helping to install shale gas production equipment near the east Ukrainian
town of Slavyansk, which was bombed and shelled for the three preceding
months, according to local residents cited by **Itar Tass*
<http://en.itar-tass.com/world/742366>*. The reason for the scramble? Under
peacetime, the process was expected to take many years, during which Europe
would be under the energy dictatorship of Putin. But throw in some civil
war and few will notice let alone care that a process which was expected to
take nearly a decade if not longer while dealing with broad popular
objections to fracking, may instead be completed in months!*

*“Civilians protected by the Ukrainian army are getting ready to install
drilling rigs. More equipment is being brought in,” they said, adding that
the military are encircling the future extraction area.*

*The people of Slavyansk, which is located in the heart of the Yzovka shale
gas field, staged numerous protest actions in the past against its
development. They even wanted to call in a referendum on that subject.
Environmentalists are particularly concerned with the consequences of
hydrofracking, a method used for shale gas extraction, because it implies
the use of extremely toxic chemical agents which can poison not only
subsoil waters but also the atmosphere. Experts claim that not a single
country in the world has invented a method of utilization of non-harmful
toxic agents in the process of development of shale gas deposits.*

*Countries like the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and France have given
up plans to develop shale gas deposits in their territories.*

*Not only those countries, but also all-important Germany, which **two
weeks ago announced *
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/germany-shelves-shale-gas-drilling-for-next-seven-years-1404481174>*it
would halt shale-gas drilling for the next seven years over groundwater
pollution concerns. *

*Which clearly makes Ukraine, potentially the last place with massive shale
gas deposits and no drilling ban, quite valuable to those who want to
develop a major source of shale gas, one which reduces Europe’s reliance on
Russian gas even more, yet one whose future depends on one simple question:
who controls East Ukraine?*

*Because what better way to accelerate “next steps” than to start drilling
for gas in the middle of the Donetsk republic as a civil war is waging in
all directions, and where public mood has shifted decidedly against the
local “separatists” in the aftermath of the MH-17 tragedy.*

*The punchline: who will develop the gas field in conjunction with Shell
(jointly owned by the Netherlands and the UK: the two countries that loathe
Putin the most in the aftermath of the MH-17 disaster) which in May 2012
announced a tender for the right to develop the Yuzovka shale gas deposit?*

*Burisma, Ukraine’s oil and gas production holdings, also has the right to
develop the shale gas fields in the Dnieper-Donetsk basin of Eastern
Ukraine. The same Burisma where R. Hunter Biden, Joseph’s son, was
appointed a director two months ago.*

*Q.E.D.