Although the proposed revision of the European Union’s Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN-E) regulation (347/2013) will exclude fossil gas projects from receiving EU funding, gas industry lobbyists are expected to retain a stranglehold on Europe’s energy future by playing a formal role in EU decisions on energy infrastructure development and financing, says a report by NGOs Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Action Europe published on Wednesday 14 April.
According to these...