Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Anti- Fracking Propaganda Is Largely Funded by the Russians

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CRENSHAW: “And the more we dig into this, you find, for instance, that there’s a shell corporation in Bermuda called Klein Ltd., which primarily funds organization in San Francisco called Sea Change, which then turns around and funds a lot of groups that you would know, like Sierra Club, for instance: And so, the Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating that as we speak. We’ve just started that investigation, we’ve sent out letters to all of these groups demanding that they come forward and be transparent with their funding. It goes back further than that. You know, in Texas, we lost a big deal with France, big natural gas export deal with France because the French said all of a sudden the carbon footprint is too high. Come to find out, now there’s allegations that Russian Gazprom got to them and said, 'No, you need to buy ours.' Now, Russian natural gas is produced much dirtier than U.S. natural gas, but again, it’s these radical environmentalist groups pushing this. Look, I'm not the only one saying this. There’s been reports from the NATO Secretary-General, even Hillary Clinton admitted that this was happening, that anti-fracking propaganda was largely funded by the Russians. The Senate Foreign Relations committee has done reports on this. Of course, my own Energy and Commerce Committee is doing a report on this. So this is not a big secret. It just has not been well-publicized. But people need to know that a lot of the anti-fracking propaganda that you hear can come from Russia."