Chapter 706

"Give me the air..."

"Give me the air!"

"Give me back the water..."

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"Give me back the water!"

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A group of environmentalists gathered in front of a large power plant in Detroit to protest. Although only a few thousand people participated in the protest, they blocked the entrance and exit of the power plant. On the road leading to the outside world outside the power plant, one car after another carrying coal was blocked on the road. From time to time, the drivers looked at the protesting crowd in front of them, praying that they could get out of the way early and let them send the coal to the power plant.

As the most developed capitalist country in the world, electric power is related to the lifeline of American industry. However, because the American electric power system has been used to coal as the main energy for many years, the cost of using coal to generate electricity in the United States is far greater than that of natural gas. Coal is still the main fuel for power plants in the United States. Although the profits of power plants are generally high, and the cost of natural gas is lower, it will cost a lot of money to transform the coal-fired generating units into natural gas driven generating units. Moreover, the loss caused by the shutdown of the power plant during the reconstruction period is not a small expense. Therefore, most of the power plants do not plan to use natural gas.

Xie liaosha now has a lot of natural gas resources. For Golgi group, the more developed industrial areas like the United States and Western Europe use natural gas as the main energy, the more profits Golgi group will make. But how can these power plants spontaneously invest a lot of money to transform coal-fired units into natural gas units? From the point of view of power plants, they certainly won't have this kind of power. That's why shagliaosha funded environmental groups to protest at the gate of the power plant.

From the late 1980s, environmentalism began to rise in developed Western Europe and North America, and gradually became a force that could control politics and votes. Especially in 1985, the British Antarctic research team discovered the hole in the ozone layer in the area of 60 degrees south latitude. It also makes people begin to pay attention to the air pollution.

Xie liaosha is not an environmentalist. His ultimate goal is to manipulate environmental groups to make profits for himself. In the United States, the only thing that can lead politicians by the nose is votes. Since sherius has focused on the huge electricity market in the United States, on the one hand, sherius has been purchasing natural gas fields in Texas and building large-scale natural gas pipelines. On the other hand, Kalim has begun to provide a large amount of funds to environmental groups, especially those concerned with air pollution.

Under Karim's arrangement, dozens of environmental groups began to pay attention to the pollution of American power plants. Especially now as the main thermal power plant, it has become the prey of environmental groups.

The main pollutants caused by thermal power plant are waste gas, waste water and waste residue. These three pollutants are not possessed by natural gas power generation. From the perspective of environmental protection, natural gas power generation has inherent advantages.

With the help of Karim, the major media in the United States suddenly began to pay attention to the three wastes pollution problem of power plants. Although the media in the United States has not been involved by Gorky group, it is not difficult to create sustained attention to a certain social hot spot in a short time as long as they have money.

It is under this subtle arrangement that the American media began to imperceptibly convey a message to the audience in front of the TV, that is, thermal power generation is endangering our health and destroying our environment. The scenes of black smoke billowing from the towering chimneys are chilling, though most of them were taken in the 1950s and 1960s.

Because of the intervention of the media, the call of environmental groups for coal-fired power plants has aroused great repercussions. In areas such as Detroit, where the automobile industry is the most developed in the United States, angry environmentalists have gathered in front of those large power plants. They use their bodies to block the roads in front of the power plants and block the transportation of coal vehicles. Many coal-fired power plants have been disrupted.

The national power grid is mainly composed of three parts: the eastern power system, the western power system and the Texas power system. These three power systems are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other. Under these three power systems, more than 180 power generation enterprises provide power to the grid. That is to say, although the power grid system has been integrated, the power generation enterprises are still scattered. If Xie liaosha plans to move, none of the 180 power generation enterprises is Xie liaosha's rival.

In order to avoid the suspicion of the U.S. Department of energy due to excessive monopoly, shariosha arranged two of his companies to participate in the acquisition of power grid. One is the natural gas group, which has been deeply engaged in the field of natural gas power generation for many years and has its own natural gas reserves and pipelines, The other is the British power company, which had been in the bag for many years.

In order to gain the advantage in cost and avoid the huge expenses caused by the long distance transportation of natural gas from Leningrad to the United States, he made use of his Western oil company to reach an agreement with BP, the world's first oil company, to exchange gas, That is to exchange the share of natural gas obtained by Western oil companies from the Soviet Union for that of BP in North America, which not only replenishes BP's natural gas reserves in Europe, but also enriches Gorky's natural gas reserves in North America.

As soon as everything is ready, he launched a round of acquisition frenzy in the U.S. power market. For those coal-fired power plants that are willing to sell, he can meet the seller's bid regardless of the cost. Then the natural gas pipeline of Enron group will be directly connected to the home appliance plant. For those plants that are not willing to sell, he will pay no attention to the cost, Naturally, it is environmental groups that disturb their normal power generation activities. By this despicable means, Enron group goes all the way north from Texas, while British electric power company goes all the way west along the east coast of the United States, wantonly devouring American power production enterprises.

Due to the extremely low electricity price of Enron group, many large manufacturing enterprises in the United States, such as Ford Motor, general motors and Chrysler, have started to sign power cooperation agreements with Enron group and British electric power company. The situation of Enron and British electric power company in the U.S. power market is forming.