‘It’s coming from Russia’ Kremlin accused of energy plot as EU forced to rely on Putin oil

She then went on to explain why she believed Russia was one of the biggest oil and gas lobbyists in the world.

Western countries have been finding new ways to provide energy to citizens as they ween themselves off Russian oil in an effort to stop putting money in Putin’s pockets.

Mr Halligan said: “Catherine, what does your worldly wisdom gage tell you of the politics of this?”

Ms McBride told GB News: “Well I think that the politics is the important part because we need energy security.

“We can’t rely on Russia to be supporting Europe and then we’re relying on Europe whether we like it or not.

“Both the centre for… You talk about lobbying from the oil and gas industry, well one of the big lobbyists out there is Russia.

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Ms McBride added: “Russia used to be the world’s biggest gas producer until the US started fracking.

“And so a lot of the anti-fracking information is disinformation, and it’s coming from Russia.

“So both Rasmussen when he was head of NATO, and also the centre for European studies have both discovered that billions of dollars or billions of pounds are being pushed into the NGOs.

“To go and protest against fracking.”

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Boris Johnson has been warning Britons of massive energy reforms to come.

The Prime Minsiter said: “People are being charged for their electricity prices on the basis of the top marginal gas price, and that is frankly ludicrous.

“We need to get rid of that system and we need to reform our energy markets as they have done in other European countries.

“That is one of the ways, by reforming the market, by changing the way things work, you can get prices down.”

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