Scandinavian seismic stations register explosions near pipelines, raising fears of sabotage

PBS ^ | 9/27/22

[EBH]

A series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany triggered concerns about sabotage Tuesday, overshadowing the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland to bolster Europe’s energy independence from Moscow.

Seismic stations Sweden, Norway and Finland registered two explosions Monday near the leaks.

Bjorn Lund, a seismologist with Uppsala University who is part of Sweden’s national seismic network, said the first explosion was recorded in the early hours southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. The latter and stronger blast that night was northeast of the island and equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.

“We know very well what an underwater blast looks like. And so in this case, there’s no doubt this is not an earthquake,” Lund said.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the events “an act of sabotage,” while Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she could not rule it out after three leaks were detected over the past day on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which are filled with gas but not delivering the fuel to Europe. An energy standoff over Russia’s war in Ukraine halted flows on Nord Stream 1 and prevented them from ever starting in the parallel Nord Stream 2.

Frederiksen, Morawiecki and Polish President Andrzej Duda symbolically opened a valve of a yellow pipe belonging to the Baltic Pipe, a new system that will bring Norway’s gas across Denmark and the Baltic Sea to Poland.

“The era of Russian domination in the gas sphere is coming to an end,” Morawiecki declared. “An era that was marked by blackmail, threats and extortion.”

[rx]

CUI BONO?

[House Atreides]

More INSANITY from the deranged RUSSIA- RUSSIA- RUSSIA crowd.

[Red Badger]

That’s one way to eliminate the competition.......................😒

[ctdonath2]

Seems Biden admitted responsibility, making clear NS2 would be shut down.

[PGR88]

The NS pipeline is 1.6” steel, with a 12” rebar-cement casing. Its 70m below the sea

I’m no expert, but would probably need several hundred lbs (minimum?) of high explosives. Whoever did it also needs ability to get far away and detonate remotely.

I wonder who could manage such a job?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In whose interest is it to sabotage the pipeline?

The Russians?
The Europeans?
The CIA?

[11th_VA]

Sounds like a Godzilla movie … just sayin

[EBH]

“We know very well what an underwater blast looks like. And so in this case, there’s no doubt this is not an earthquake,” Lund said.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe there were “risers” for maintenance access and that is what was hit?

/wild speculation

[CJ Wolf]

The Green Globalists

[dljordan]

Where was the CIA at that time?

[BenLurkin]

[SaveFerris]

World War IV gonna be so much fun

[SaveFerris]

🛐🙏✝️

[Tench_Coxe]

Process of elimination.
Russia is making money by selling the gas through the pipeline.
Europe needs the gas this winter or their people freeze.
Other parties may have interests in Ukraine that involve neither of the first two scenarios.

[Antioch]

This is hardly a whodunnit. If the Russians wanted the Nordstream 2 pipeline to stop, they could press a button on their end, so it’s obviously not Putin. The continental Europeans, whether they admit it or not, are desperate to oil so it’s in their interest that pipeline remains functional. That leaves two suspects: the Ukronazis (who are trying to breach reactors with artillery to poison Europe and drag it into war-so pipeline bombs are nothing) or, our favourite villains, the Anglo Saxon Elites (CIA/Mi6) who, by shutting down N2, will force all gas through Ukraine where Zelensky gets to skim off gas and collect transit fees to pay for endless weapons.

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[SaveFerris]

Must admit Mi6 was my first guess

[Mariner]

No state on the planet had more to gain from this than the US. And gains to the US are political, strategic and commercial.

Nobody else had anything to gain.