Posted on 04/05/2014 6:56:40 AM PDT by Fennie
Nahh, China will fill that gap and in fact it’s already begun. Will China as a major purchaser of Russian gas, their economy shall thrive.
Yeah, especially the one where they said you can keep your doctor& health insurance plan...PERIOD! /Sarc :P
You keep denying the fact the EU and the Ukraine have already begun the work to make it possible to reverse the flow of natural gas to the Ukraine. Here is yet another article proving such work has already been underway. Yes, it may only provide 18% from Slovakia after a nine month wait to complete the work already begun on the metering station. But onece the work is complete, part of the Ukraine’s needs can be flowing to the Ukraine from Slovakia. More of the Ukrainian and EU needs can soon be satisfied with a combination of conservation in the shor-term and addition of new sources of supply. There are existing pipelines from North Africa and soon to debut pipelines from the Caspian. Cyprus in the long-term may supply much of Europe’s needs. Russian obstructionism and intimidation will be moot once Russia chooses to cutoff the supplies anyway.
REFILE-Plans for EU gas flows to Ukraine could be blocked by Russia
Mon Apr 7, 2014 11:25am EDT
Eustream said it was working with Ukrainian pipeline operator Ukrtransgas to try to ensure that reverse flows could start by the winter, when demand for gas peaks. It has already built a compressor station to drive gas eastward.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/07/ukraine-crisis-gas-idUSL6N0MZ29U20140407
As I said before, the investments the oil and gas industry has in the Russian development projects is leverage the Russians are using for all it is worth as they intended when they invited Western participation, but that leverage will suddenly disappear and become moot when Putin’s Russian regime alienates their Western partners and impair their investments in Russia with further illegal invasions of the oil & gas industry’s European owners and customers.
You appear to be deny the fact the EU doesn't have a gas supply to continue to supply the Ukraine with Natural Gas or even meet their own need.
As I posted before, we are talking about two different things. You are talking about a short term supply to compensate for an interruption of normal supply.
I am talking about normal, long-term supply. Europe has grown their import of Natural Gas from Russia since 2009 and continue to expand it today with the South Stream line. The EU needs the gas from Russia. And that will cost them in the long run.
My sarcastic idea was that rather than destroy the American coal industry, export it.
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