European Union

also referred to as: eu

11 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2022 by Dr. Tatiana Mitrova · said 51 times in 21 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Dr. Melissa Lott (9), Adi Basham (8), Katherine Hamilton (6), Stephen Lacey (5), Gabriel Kra (4), MJ Shiao (3), Lisa Martine Jenkins (2), Jeremy Symons (2)

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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2023 31 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about European Union, oldest first

Aug 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Mitrova: Russian Coal Made Up Over 40% of EU Supplies
“The European Union has imposed embargo on Russian coal, which used to be very important for the supplies of the European consumers, more than 40%.”
Dr. Tatiana Mitrova Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 9:09 How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
Aug 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Corbeau: Europe must triple annual wind and solar additions to hit 2030 goals
“The target is To have more than 1200 gigawatts of renewable capacity by the end of 2030. So that means a very, very substantial increase in terms of the addition of wind and solar capacity every year. We need to, between now and 2030, to multiply the normal ad…”
Anne-Sophie Corbeau Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 22:23 How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
Aug 3, 2022 neutral
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mitrova: EU oil embargo will likely reduce Russian exports by only 10-15%
“In the longer term, as the EU is implementing its oil embargo, and with all these constraints on insurance and shipping, There will be definitely some effect to limited extent. So we are probably talking about 10, 15% decline in the Russian oil exports and cor…”
Dr. Tatiana Mitrova Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 42:33 How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
Aug 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Corbeau: EU hydrogen import target equals 40 NEOM-scale projects by 2030
“Ten million tons of imported hydrogen. This is about 40 of this NEOM project, which is currently considered in Saudi Arabia. So that's a lot of project. And this is supposed to happen in eight years.”
Anne-Sophie Corbeau Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 24:23 How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
Aug 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Corbeau: EU green hydrogen goal requires 500 TWh of renewable electricity
“Ten million tons of Green hydrogen produced domestically. This is an additional 500 terawatt hours of the renewable capacity. That's about 70% of what we are producing right now in Europe.”
Anne-Sophie Corbeau Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 24:09 How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
Jul 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Lott: European Energy Purchases Supplied Russia an Estimated $1B Daily
“Well, those energy purchases have allowed Russia to continue financing their military, supplying an estimated one billion dollars a day to Moscow.”
Dr. Melissa Lott Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 6:21 A new narrative series on the origins of Europe's energy crisis
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
EU hydrogen import demand will set global production standards
“Because the EU is looking to become the largest importer of clean hydrogen globally that means that their rules really, really affect hydrogen production elsewhere, particularly for markets looking to export hydrogen to Europe and basically set a global standa…”
Adi Basham Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 12:12 The high stakes debate over green hydrogen
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Existing capacity fully satisfies Europe's gas demand without new projects
“We've learned that even with existing capacities, the market has been able to fully satisfy EU's gas needs after they got off Russian gas.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 18:32 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Dec 18, 2023 bearish
Assertion Supported
Cumulative US LNG emissions could exceed the footprint of 1,000 coal plants
“If you add up all the emissions from what's in operation, all the emissions from what's under construction, all the emissions from what is being proposed beyond that, we could be talking about the emission footprint of about a thousand, actually more than a th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:00 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Dec 22, 2023 bearish
Opinion
St. John: Clean hydrogen lacks the infrastructure and economics for end-user adoption
“Governments, the United States, the European Union, South Korea, Japan, others, are incentivizing hydrogen production for these purposes And making goals that are kind of astounding in their scope for gigawatts, tens of gigawatts of hydrogen production, and ye…”
Jeff St. John Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 37:22 The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
Mar 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
EU clean hydrogen regulations delay hourly matching requirements until 2030
“The 45 V guidelines are potentially more strict than the parallel guidance in the European Union, which allows for some grandfathering, requires monthly matching through twenty-twenty-nine, and doesn't move to hourly matching until twenty-thirty.”
Lisa Martine Jenkins Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 13:53 The Latitude: Could government rules hinder green hydrogen?
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