The consumer watchdog has given the green light to Woodside Petroleum's proposed purchase of oil and
gas assets from US energy company Apache, after concluding it would not have a significant effect on the
domestic gas market.
In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War
asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for
gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized
domestic industry and also household consumption.