Different take on events from the BBC and the Telegraph….curious the BBC not keen to report someone saying Europe’s wind and solar energy drive is a shambles…..

This is what the BBC tells us Alexey Miller from Gazprom said about the latest Russian gas deal with China:

Alexei Miller, Chief Executive of Gazprom said the new deal was “the biggest contract in the entire history of the USSR and Gazprom – over 1 trillion cubic metres of gas will be supplied during a whole contractual period.”

This from the Telegraph:

Russia’s gas king taunts crumbling Europe over China pipeline coup

Gazprom’s chairman has describing Europe’s energy shortage as “scary” and ridiculed the EU’s push for wind and solar power as a shambles

Alexey Miller, chairman of the state giant Gazprom, said Russia’s $400bn deal this week to supply gas to China for 30 years is a black moment for Europe and will change the geo-strategic balance in the world. “The global competition for Russian gas resources started yesterday. Let there be no mistake about that. We have untapped the Asian market and this is going to have an impact on European gas prices.”

Describing Europe’s energy shortage as “scary”, he ridiculed the EU’s push for wind and solar power as a shambles, and said its LNG venture had gone nowhere with capacity use collapsing to 22pc. “Europe has lost the competition global for LNG, and in a single day it has just lost the competition for the world’s pipeline gas as well,” he said.