3. Recap on last lesson
• What did we look at?
• Homework was to?
• Why is energy so important to China, how
does this tie into superpowers?
4. China’s ‘Blue Water’ Navy
• Few ‘blue water’ navies capable of deploying worldwide.
• China’s navy currently coastal; patrols inshore waters.
• Dependence on oil imports - wants to protect shipping routes using own forces
• Currently expanding nuclear powered attack submarine fleet and has plans to
build aircraft carriers.
• Plan to have a navy
capable of patrolling
out into the Pacific
to what it calls the
‘Second Island
Chain’.
5. Energy Control and Distribution – Economic and
Political risks of energy disruption
6. Gazprom
• Supplies 25% of EU gas.
• 4% OF UK gas.
• Worlds 3rd largest energy company.
• Employs nearly ½ million people.
• Turn to p25 in Parrot.
7. Gazprom Song!
• Listen to this
song here and
think about
what the
lyrics are
saying about
the company?
• Lyrics:
Don't bother trying, you'll never
ever find
A surer friend than Gazprom
We're giving people warmth and
light
For office and for home
We should always keep in mind
From dawn till sun down,
That our work is always needed
Working day or holiday
Ref.:
Let's drink to you, let's drink to
us,
Let's drink to all the Russian gas
That it never comes to an end,
Though it's so hard to obtain
Let's drink to you, let's drink to us
Let's drink to all the Russian gas
For those extracting the new sun
From down beneath the ground
We're renowned for our deeds
The world over
And all your troubles will recede
If Gazprom people are nearby
Don't try, you'll never ever find
A surer friend than Gazprom
We're giving people warmth and
light
For office and for home
8. Gazprom and the Ukraine conflict -
p26
• Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have
been high since 2004, when pro-Western
forces led by President Viktor Yushchenko won
control of the government over Viktor
Yanukovych, a Moscow ally. Russia also
opposes Ukraine’s desire to join the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization and the EU.
• Headlines
11. Gazprom and the Ukraine conflict
• Watch this video to see what the effects were.
• Watch this video to see what the impacts
were?
• What about in Bulgaria?
• EVALUATE – here is the other
side of the coin, is Gazprom
all bad???
12.
13. TASK
1. To what extend does Russia use it’s energy as
a political and economic weapon.
2. Is it right to be worried
about energy security
in Europe?
