Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Russkies Make Germany Cold

Some in this country think that we should not strive for energy independence.

Deliveries of Russian natural gas to Germany through the Yamal-Europe pipeline have been completely halted, data from the country’s transport operator, Gascade, revealed on Tuesday morning. The suspension of the flow comes after a weekend in which the volume being sent through the network dropped significantly, just as demand for energy in both Russia and the rest of Europe reached its winter peak. On Monday, it was reported that state-owned giant Gazprom, the system’s operator in Russia and Belarus, had booked no capacity at all for transiting natural gas on Tuesday....
--quoted at Vox

Perhaps it has to do with gaining EU approval of another pipeline.

Perhaps not.


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