Posted on 01/06/2009 12:30:40 PM PST by lizol
Hungary says Russian gas supplies via Ukraine stopped
Tue Jan 6, 2009 10:06pm IST
BUDAPEST, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Russian gas shipments via Ukraine to Hungary halted on Tuesday and the Hungarian government said it would ask some power plants to switch to alternative fuel by 1000 GMT on Wednesday.
"I would like to inform you that gas shipments from Ukraine continuously declined today and at 1430 GMT they completely stopped," Transport and Energy Minister Csaba Molnar told a news conference.
The government would consider freeing up strategic gas reserves and make a decision on Wednesday morning if necessary, he said..
"There is an increasing likelihood ... that tomorrow we may have a situation, depending on news overnight ... that we will have to impose restrictions in the first category, that of large (gas) users," the minister added.
Molnar said Hungary would notify Serbia and Bosnia that it was unable to provide transit gas shipments as Russian gas imports via Ukraine had stopped.
Molnar said Hungary would write a letter to Ukraine, Russia, and the EU presidency the Czech Republic saying a dispute over gas between two countries must not be allowed to pose a threat to the gas supply of other European countries.
Hungary's gas imports via a pipeline from Austria, which has a capacity of 6-7 million cubic metres a day, have also dropped to around 3 million cubic metres.
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What’s got Putin’s panties in a knot??????...........
cold weather ping
Pooty Ping.
Gas was cut in Serbia too. And everyone is blaming Hungarians.
Gas flow was normal but Hungarians cutt it off.
Also Ukraine is blamed. And I dont mean blamed by govt. but by ordinary people.
Ukrainian jerks are paying $150 what we others pay $500 and they are not able to pay even that!
Ukranian morones are using gas in their steel mills and factories!
He's laying the groundwork for rebuilding the Warsaw Pact.
It seems that he does this every winter.
Serbs blame Hungarians, Hungarians blame Ukrainians, Ukrainians blame Russians...
It’s the other way round like with some famous disease, which - in old times - was called a Polish disease in Russia, a German disease in Poland, and a French disease in Germany.
Figure out what disease I’m talking about ;-)
I dont know!
But it burns like hell when I take a pi**
:)))))))))))))))
LOL!
If those being squeezed by ol pooty had any sense they would be looking hard and fast for another source, maybe North Sea. Hard to beleive no NG in that part of Eurpoe.
The North Sea is already a significant area of Natural Gas production.
International > Country Analysis Briefs > North Sea
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/North_Sea/NaturalGas.html
Its a good thing that we have a global warming problem that is heating up the earth...soon they wont need heat at all because the earth has been heating up and the winters have been really mild...../sarcsm off
Now’s the time for Germany to see if all those expensive solar panels and wind mills can save them from lack of natural gas. I doubt it. Solar panels do not separate power users from the grid, and their systems need to be connected to outside power or they don’t work. How ironic!
This Soviet episode (actually I think the Soviets were more reliable on gas deliveries) is putting the test to renewable energy and it is failing miserably. Renewable energy is weak and unreliable and people will freeze and die if they try to rely on it. Wind and solar cannot be stored and are dependent on the weather - enough said.
It all means that the West must build nuclear power plants so that they can never be held up again.
Build nukes, arrest the Eco-terrorists and don’t do business with Russians. The problem is worked out.
Am familiar with extensive natural gas production from North Sea. That’s why my suggestion was the “cut-off and cold” Europeans look toward the North Sea. A secondary source pipeline from North Sea would put a dent in Pooty’s ploy.
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