Largely overlooked in the coverage of last Friday’s release of a report confirming Russia interfered with November’s presidential election is the latest round of evidence showing Russia has also been attempting to undermine another U.S. institution — the shale revolution.

The following excerpt buried on page 18 of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report reveals Russia used its state-funded television network, Russia Today (RT), as a platform to push anti-fracking disinformation aimed at harming the U.S. shale industry and protecting Russia’s global market share.

Notably, this RT programming has featured interviews with leaders of the U.S. anti-fracking movement, and the intelligence report indicates that this anti-fracking propaganda campaign is targeted at a U.S. audience:

This cozy collaboration between leaders of the U.S. anti-fracking movement and RT considered, we would be remiss not to note it was just three months ago that leaked documents containing a number of private speeches given by Hillary Clinton View Full Article