It is good they inform the people, though it shows how much under the thumb the EU is, or how unable their administrations are to act in favor of their people. Do the people not see it?Overall, European storage facilities were 49.33% full as of January 12, according to Gas Infrastructure Europe. If the current rate of withdrawal is sustained, Europe’s reserves could be fully depleted by the end of winter delivery, it said.
well, from my, extremely small, circle of people - no.Do the people not see it?
Update:Also note that the article states the additional fuel will be “provisionally” delivered, so no guarantee. Given energy crisis growing in Europe (ie: NordStream 2 suspension) will be interesting to see if the fuel will indeed be sent over.
“…according to three people familiar with the situation.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has spoken to major gas producers, including Qatar, about the possibility of getting more shipments sent to Europe in case a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine interrupts flows. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied having any plans for an invasion.”
Qatar, one of the world’s biggest exporters of liquefied natural gas, is already producing at full capacity and most of its cargoes are sent to Asia under long-term contracts that it can’t break, the people said. The Persian Gulf state doesn’t want to compromise those Asian partnerships even if doing so would reap political rewards in Europe and the U.S., they said.
The U.S. is prepared to ensure alternative supplies covering a significant majority of any potential gas shortfall, two senior Biden administration officials said Tuesday. Re-routing supplies could take anywhere from several days to a week or two, the officials said.
The U.S. is looking at a range of contingency options and talking to various allies and companies around the world, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, on Monday. They “discussed Russia’s unprovoked military buildup near Ukraine’s borders,” according to the U.S. State Department.
The ship’s main role is to supply LNG to Kaliningrad, which is separated from Russia’s mainland and sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. The ship ensures the enclave can receive gas even if there are disruptions to pipelines running through Lithuania.
2022-02-13 ::: Denis Rancourt on the global climate change agenda - interview with Jeremy Nell (Jerm Warfare)
Denis Rancourt is a scientist and social theorist.
He has chatted to me about Covid myths, and now he chats to me about climate change myths.
In this conversation, Denis discusses
- why more CO2 is a good thing;
- why plastic straws aren't an issue;
- green energy propaganda;
- why warmer tempratures aren't a concern; and
- why the climate change industry is a scam.
The Vatican is once again trying to make climate action a key issue for Catholics, as it launches a program called the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, named after the Pope’s 2015 letter that framed protecting the environmental as a spiritual mandate. The new website calls on Catholics to eat less meat, take public transit and drive less, avoid single-use plastics and other wasteful habits, and take part in a “cultural revolution” to change how they interact with the natural environment and financial systems.
“Discerning a response to the ecological crisis is a profound act of care,” the website says. “The Laudato Si’ Goals guide our actions…. Their holistic approach acknowledges the planetary limits of all socio-economic systems and the human roots of the ecological crisis. They call for a spiritual and cultural revolution to realise integral ecology.”
Another update: If this asinine administration were a type of shoe it be a flip-flop. Can’t send LNG to Europe now because - climate change! And leaky Russian gas pipes - of course Here’s a look at their plan:This is so asinine. There’s gas literally just waiting to be turned on, but nope, a few elitist’s (not to mention Biden’s massive conflict of interest regarding Ukraine) are hellbent on getting some sort of ROI out of any other form of gas other than Russia origin…
argument. Clearly it’s Russia’s but we have no evidence to back it - and yet Reuters felt the need to include..WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – White House efforts to boost U.S. liquefied natural gas exports and cut Europe’s reliance on Russian gas after the invasion of Ukraine are proceeding slowly, because of concerns about the impact on climate change, government and industry sources said.
The Ukraine crisis has underscored Europe’s energy dependence on Russia, which supplies about 40% of the natural gas used to heat its homes and generate electricity, and the Biden administration has vowed to help its allies break that chain.
The White House was weighing the announcement of an interagency review of ways to boost LNG exports to Europe alongside Tuesday’s decision to ban U.S. imports of Russian oil products, people briefed on government decision-making told Reuters.
However, the interagency review has been shelved, at least for now, after some in the White House argued it would counter the administration’s efforts to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels consumption and production and tackle climate change, the sources said.
Natural gas burns with much lower carbon emissions than coal or oil, but its drilling and extraction and transportation in pipelines results in the leakage of methane, the second biggest cause of climate change after carbon dioxide. The U.S. LNG industry has long claimed its fuel has less climate impact than Russian gas sent by leaky pipelines to Europe, but there’s little hard data comparing the two.
Good luck with that!The White House did not respond to inquiries about the change of plans. The U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Energy referred questions to the White House.
The European Commission published plans on Tuesday to cut EU dependency on Russian gas by two-thirds this year and end its reliance on Russian supplies of the fuel “well before 2030.”
But maybe said allies see through the snake oil
Some Biden officials hoped a more detailed U.S. commitment to boost LNG exports would help convince European allies to join in the ban of Russian oil imports, the sources said.
Remember Russian uranium still unsactioned…“It was a no-brainer to send a market signal and they easily could have combined it with a push for more exports of heat pumps, renewables, advanced nuclear,
What?! They state below their looking to build 6 LNG (natural gas) export terminals. The no-brainer are the pathetic pathocratics outlining a non-plan.etc., to reduce natural gas demand,” said one of the sources. The effort was reeled back amid “concerns from the climate team” in the Biden administration, the source said.
There going to coax the EU into paying for LNG ports; wonder how they plan to do that? coercion - what a jokeTWENTY-YEAR CONTRACTS
Trying to balance fighting climate change with other concerns, like keeping energy prices and inflation low and supporting union jobs, has been a dilemma for the Biden administration. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has thrown the issue into high relief. Moscow calls the action a “special military operation.”
In recent weeks, officials from the White House, the State Department, the Energy Department and other agencies have held discussions on whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could expedite approval of new pipelines and approve requests to increase capacity at existing export terminals to help get natural gas to Europe, several sources said.
They also discussed whether the United States and the European Union could help guarantee portions of 20-year supply contracts necessary to finance the construction of new terminals and ports, and ways to get banks to finance some new projects amid efforts by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to coax them to stay away from fossil fuel investments, the sources said.
Sounds like domestic extortion… sell gas to Europe at premium; damn the citizens needs in say New England…
“Perhaps, there could be some waiver or some other mechanism to help banks finance (LNG) infrastructure projects,” said one source.
The State Department has previously said financial institutions make their own decisions and that Kerry has not pressured financial institutions into making commitments. The United States has enough natural gas to produce at its 2020 rate for nearly 100 years, according to the latest government estimates, but tapping the nation’s ample supply is constrained by lack of pipelines and export terminals, and the time it takes to build this infrastructure.
By the end of this year, the United States will have the world’s largest LNG export capacity, with seven export terminals, enough to ship 11.5 billion cubic feet per day.
So they’re creating need by cutting off Russian demand and “coaxing” EU to substitute their own all at the expense of the US consumer. Greed is a desease…Exports are complicated: LNG needs to be pumped from underground to an export terminal, super-cooled and put onto a ship. When it reaches its destination, it is warmed and put into pipelines.
The total number of U.S. cargoes shipped to Europe and Turkey in the first two months of 2022 reached a record of 164, according to data intelligence firm ICIS. The previous record was 125 cargoes in the first quarter of 2020.
(Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Timothy Gardner; Editing by Heather Timmons, David Gregorio and Paul Simao)
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