Natural Gas Europe cites an event hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center with Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the US Department of State, Amos Hochstein:
In his address on 8 January to attendees at the first event of the Atlantic Council‘s newly inaugurated Global Energy Center, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the US Department of State, Mr. Amos Hochstein, noted the dramatic events in Europe in 2014, with the Russian actions in Crimea and in Eastern Ukraine. “And that resulted in a reminder once again to Europe: If you don’t do something about the fundamentals of your energy supply, this will continue to happen.”
He opined that this was not an extraordinary event. “When the gas was shut off from Russia to Ukraine on June 16th, that was not a unique event – it happened in 2006 and in 2009, therefore it happened again in 2014, and there is no reason to believe it will not happen again.”