Recently, the 13 largest natural gas exporters held a meeting in Doha, Qatar. In The Observer, Alexander Temerko, former vice-president of Yukos, the Russian oil giant said, “I believe Moscow has already decided that a gas cartel is inevitable.” He believes that what they have in mind is, “… an organisation that will behave in ways entirely hostile to the market-orientated goals for which UK governments have pushed for two decades.”  We should remember that about 40% of the yield in grain and oilseed crops comes from the use of nitrogen fertiliser made using gas as the feedstock. In 2006 the European Commission warned that by 2030 , 84% of European gas supplies would come from outside the EU

The U.S. And Europe are becoming dependent for their food supplies on unreliable countries like Russia, Saudia Arabia, Venezuela and Iran, just as surely as if the food were grown in those countries. Without imported oil and natural gas, farming and the food industry in the West cannot now function. Worse still, these supplies are finite. By 2025 there will be about 8 billion people on earth food production is coming under extreme pressure for the following reasons, which we will bring news on:

• peak oil

• security of energy supply

• climate change

• loss of crop land

• China and the East moving up the food chain

• competition for land for biofuel production

• collapse of fisheries

The U.S. And Europe are becoming dependent for their food supplies on unreliable countries like Russia, Saudia Arabia, Venezuela and Iran, just as surely as if the food were grown in those countries. Without imported oil and natural gas, farming and the food industry in the West cannot now function. Worse still, these supplies are finite. By 2025 there will be about 8 billion people on earth food production is coming under extreme pressure for the following reasons, which we will bring news on:

• peak oil

• security of energy supply

• climate change

• loss of crop land

• China and the East moving up the food chain

• competition for land for biofuel production

• collapse of fisheries