www.huffingtonpost.it // february 2014
The Eni media campaign focuses on the emergency of a competitive European industry, penalized by gas and electricity which is much more expensive than in the United States. The problem is real, but there are also real doubts about the sustainability of a model founded on cheap hydrocarbons. Besides this, what is striking is the unscrupulousness with which Eni, alone among the big oil companies, has chosen to play a controversial match. The leaders of the company have taken a position contrary to community strategies of decarbonisation, claiming them to be ineffective, a high cost to the economy and a potential injury to the security of supply. The economical alternative, according to Eni, would be the American choice in favor of shale gas, which means drilling in Europe and renewing the pacts with historical suppliers like Algeria and Russia.