US congressmen decided to speed up the process of selling gas abroad
The contract on export of liquefied natural gas from the United States in the near future will be faster, the relevant draft law was approved by the chamber of authorized American Congress, reports the Agency.
According to this document, the request for American exports of liquefied natural gas from countries with which the US has not signed the free trade agreement (including Ukraine), will now be discussed within 30 days, not 90.
the draft law, according to the plan of its authors, is obliged " to demonstrate allies and adversaries of the United States that, in matters of energy security, the country set up very seriously ", said the Republican Cory Gardner.
the subsequent stage statement of the bill will pass in the Senate, which in March, together with the Internal energy Council began to consider ways of acceleration of such transactions on energy export, to minimize dependence U.S. allies on Russian natural gas.
Opponents of the bill believe that this measure in the end than a little help Europe or Ukraine, as the development of infrastructure for export of liquefied natural gas will take years.
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