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Video of #Putin addressing #Germany
“You will need forest timber if you give up Russian gas, and if you want timber you will need to come to the forests of Siberia.”
— Putin (@Io3iOn) July 3, 2022
I only recently learned that the Gazprom line to Germany is shut down for maintenance every year. RT ran it as a breaking headline that Russia was shutting gas off to Europe, then in the text it said it was for maintenance. They didn’t mention it was annual.
I’ve been shilling for Russia to completely cut off the gas and collapse the European economy totally. Europe is trying to collapse the Russian economy totally; I don’t understand why Putin is playing so nice.
But despite the reporting on the topic, there is no reason to believe this is not just routine maintenance. Of course, if Russia was going to shut off the gas, they would probably use maintenance as an excuse, and say like “oh well, we had a problem – sorry, lol.”
Germany is bracing itself for a potentially permanent halt to the flow of Russian gas from Monday when maintenance work begins on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that brings the fuel to Europe’s largest economy via the Baltic Sea.
The work on the 759-mile (1,220km) pipeline is an annual event and requires the gas taps to be closed for 10 to 14 days. But never before in the pipeline’s decade-long history has Germany seriously been asking whether the flow will begin again.
Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister, has not shied away from addressing the government’s concerns. On Saturday, he spoke of the “nightmare scenario” that could occur.
Why would he admit that?
And why did he start a war with a county that has the ability to inflict a nightmare scenario in the first place?
“Everything is possible, everything can happen,” Habeck told the broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. “It could be that the gas flows again, maybe more than before. It can also be the case that nothing comes.
“We need to honestly prepare for the worst-case scenario and do our best to try to deal with the situation.”
Contingency plans are rapidly being drawn up across Germany, where there are genuine concerns that Moscow might use the opportunity to further weaponise gas as a lever against the west in its war with Ukraine and permanently turn off supplies.
It’s Moscow that’s weaponizing gas.
Wow.
Russian gas is vital to the running of Germany’s economy as well as keeping the majority of homes warm. Flows through the pipeline have been reduced in recent months and are at about 40% of the usual levels. Russia has blamed sanctions for the reduced flow, arguing they have hindered its access to spare parts.
On Saturday, Canada said after consultation with Germany and the International Energy Agency that it would issue a temporary exemption to sanctions against Russia in order to allow the return from Montreal of a repaired Russian turbine that is required for the maintenance work to be carried out.
On Friday, the Kremlin said it would increase gas supplies to Europe once the turbine was returned to Russia. Ukraine has objected to this, arguing it helps continue the continent’s dependency on Russian gas.
Canada has betrayed Ukraine and its own sanctions regime, to the great benefit of the Russian regime of state terrorism.
Caving in to pressure from the Putinversteher faction, Canada will return a gas turbine to Germany.
More Ukrainians will die due to Canada’s capitulation.
— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) July 10, 2022
The short-term goal is to attempt to replenish stocks in Germany’s gas storage facilities to last the winter. The most recent reading, released by the Federal Network Agency on Friday, showed storage facilities to be at 63% capacity. The goal is 90% by November 1.
The longer-term target is to lessen dependency on gas by increasing the generation of renewable energy, in part by redefining the sectors as being of vital importance to national security.
German industry and households consume around two-thirds of the country’s gas supplies.
Plans are already in place to prioritise who would have access to gas in case of a cut. Hospitals and emergency services are at the top of the list, while households are ranked above most industrial concerns.
Germany is going to have to go full steampunk.
That would at least be fun.
France is also getting hysterical.
RT:
French authorities are preparing for a complete suspension of gas supplies from Russia, according to the country’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who sees such a full shutdown as the “most likely scenario.”
“I think that a total cutoff of Russian gas supplies is a real possibility … and we need to prepare for this scenario,” Le Maire said, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in southern France, as cited by Reuters.
“It would be totally irresponsible to ignore this scenario,” he said. “We’re pretty much already there.”
No, you’re not even there at all.
It’s annual maintenance.
According to the minister, the first line of defense is for households and businesses to reduce energy consumption, then the construction of new infrastructure like a floating plant that will be able to re-gasify shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from overseas.
Paris is also looking company-by-company to see which could be forced to scale back production capacities to save energy if necessary, Le Maire said.
The French government has been preparing contingency plans despite the fact that the nation is less dependent on Russian gas supplies than other European countries. Some 17% of France’s total supply is reportedly coming from Russia.
This overseas LNG is more of a stupid fantasy than the windmills. You don’t have to really be an expert to come up with a rough guess about the difference between hauling LNG on boats and shooting it through a massive pipe.
I have no idea how many ships it takes to move as much as that pipe can move in an hour, but it’s a lot. You would actually have to build a bunch of new boats, an entire new LNG fleet. The actual supply chain itself is more complicated than that – Russia is the biggest commodities market in the world, so cutting them out of the game creates a shortage no matter what.
This is all just being driven by moral panic, arms manufacturers, and hysterical Jewish Russophobia.
If China or Turkey did what Germany just did we would be sanctioning their whole economies. Berlin now aiding the Russian war effort and by violating the sanctions regime
https://t.co/lk3MVkC5q0— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) July 10, 2022
