Pressure leaks hit undersea Nord Stream pipelines
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#2"Global Warming Effect".
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#3It is exceedingly unlikely that this is an accident, seeing as no less than three separate pipelines were punctured at different locations within hours of each other.
While none of the pipelines were currently operational, this basically ensures that even if some agreement could be reached with Russia to resume gas imports (not very likely!), it will not be possible in the short term, seeing as the operator claims damages of an unparallelled scale, without going into details.
Presumably this means security around the new Norway-Poland gas pipeline to be opened one of these days is tightened. The seas it runs through are very shallow, so if throwing sufficient resources on it, it should be possible to keep anything larger than a herring from getting close without being noticed.
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#4"Global Warming Effect".
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#5"Global Warming Effect".
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-But methane (IDK the composition of the gas in the Nord Stream, but significant methane content is a good bet) is a much more potent greenhouse gas than the CO2 resulting from burning methane.
You basically get more global warming bang for your buck if releasing methane to the atmosphere than if you go through the trouble of burning it first.
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-But methane (IDK the composition of the gas in the Nord Stream, but significant methane content is a good bet) is a much more potent greenhouse gas than the CO2 resulting from burning methane. You basically get more global warming bang for your buck if releasing methane to the atmosphere than if you go through the trouble of burning it first.
Stand Corrected. So they should just use flame thrower on those bubbles.
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#8It is exceedingly unlikely that this is an accident, seeing as no less than three separate pipelines were punctured at different locations within hours of each other. While none of the pipelines were currently operational, this basically ensures that even if some agreement could be reached with Russia to resume gas imports (not very likely!), it will not be possible in the short term, seeing as the operator claims da…
If I could put on my amateur geo-political-analyst hat for a moment, who could be behind this and why?
Seems like a Putin move, since he dared using (probably) a sub in other nations' waters. Reason? To show Europe he means business? To show Europe he's not planning to rewind anything to the way things were in 2021?
Re: Pressure leaks hit undersea Nord Stream pipelines
#9It is exceedingly unlikely that this is an accident, seeing as no less than three separate pipelines were punctured at different locations within hours of each other. While none of the pipelines were currently operational, this basically ensures that even if some agreement could be reached with Russia to resume gas imports (not very likely!), it will not be possible in the short term, seeing as the operator claims da…
If I could put on my amateur geo-political-analyst hat for a moment, who could be behind this and why? Seems like a Putin move, since he dared using (probably) a sub in other nations' waters. Reason? To show Europe he means business? To show Europe he's not planning to rewind anything to the way things were in 2021?
If one is of a sufficiently dark view, it may even be some western power wishing to drive home the point that Russia will not - full stop - export gas in any significant quantity to Europe anytime soon.
I would believe it more likely to be the Russians testing the waters, so to speak - finding out how far you can go sabotaging infrastructure.
After all, starting with two non-operational pipelines makes consequences less severe at both ends, while gaining the perpetrator some experience how to evade detection. (Which may come in handy later!)