Poland says Russia obstructs Europe's energy plans

Reuters UK ^ | PIESTANY, Slovakia, Sept 13 (Reuters)

[Perdogg]

Russia's military intervention in Georgia was aimed at obstructing Europe's efforts to cut its reliance on Russian energy resources and diversify its supplies, Poland's president said on Saturday.

Lech Kaczynski accused Moscow of using its energy policy to blackmail Europe which depends heavily on oil and gas imports from Russia.

Kaczynski said it was in the European Union's interests to diversify sources of energy commodities.

"The situation in Georgia is complicating this, and I think it was Russia's aim to make it more complicated," Kaczynski said after meeting the presidents of Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia in the western Slovak spa town of Piestany.

[SunkenCiv]

Russia's military intervention in Georgia was aimed at obstructing Europe's efforts to cut its reliance on Russian energy resources and diversify its supplies, Poland's president said on Saturday.

[onedoug]

I think this is true. The Russians want to strong arm countires and companies to use their crummy pipeline systems, while the BTC (principle owners Turkey and Britain) from Baku and the Caspian to Tblisi to Ceyhan and the Mediterranian moves about three times their capacity.

[M. Espinola]

Putin's Kremlin thugs would love to duplicate these images in Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and the through the streets of the capitol of Georgia, then keep heading southward, linking up with Moscow's jihadist cohorts in Iran.