Poland wants to reduce its reliance on Russian energy, and last week its state-owned oil and gas company, PGNiG, signed its first five-year deal to buy American liquefied natural gas. The agreement illustrates how the energy boom from the fracking revolution can serve U.S. national interests and deter the reach of dictators abroad. Moscow has long used its energy resources as a political weapon. Gazprom, the Kremlin-owned energy company, currently provides more than two-thirds of Poland’s gas, and other European nations also...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 28, 2017 00:11 UTC