The battle for the energy resources has been constantly in play over the course of history, it has generated coup d'etats and led to regimes being overturned, has generated colonialism, conquests of land, armed and economic conflicts, but, at this moment of the crisis, the battle for energy resources is becoming paroxistical.
Investment in energy resources is one of the few left that are still secure, at the present time, meaning that investors which have a tradition in this field have to deal with competition and with those involved in other sectors, which, worried about the decline of other markets, have shifted their focus, as well as from speculators involved in other sectors, such as George Soros.
* FINANCIERS
It would seem a harsh competition over commodities and the energy resources in Eastern Europe has begun between the finance overlords of the world, George Soros and Marc Rich.
The press wrote about the fact that Soros is involved in the acquisition of resources on the territory of former Yugoslavia, in Romania and Ukraine. Such a reorientation, means however, that Soros is stepping on to the turf of Marc Rich, who is considered the "father" of the Russian oligarchs, and who is their advisor.
Marc Rich is a well known businessman who is involved in a global-scale commodity trading. He is the founder of Glencore. He was convicted in the US for illegal trading with Iran at the end of the "70s and for tax evasion. He was sentenced to 325 years in prison, but was pardoned by Bill Clinton.
* HUGE RESOURCE DEPOSITS IN ROMANIA?
Are the resources of natural gas and oil in the Black Sea "gigantic and of planetary importance", like Gerhard Roiss, the CEO of OMV Austria, recently said?
Does Gerhard Roiss have newer information over what he had in February this year, when those finds were announced?
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