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Canada exempts Russian gas turbine from sanctions amid Europe energy crisis
The Guardian ^ | July 9, 2022 | Guardian Staff and Agencies

Posted on 07/09/2022 10:39:27 PM PDT by House Atreides

Ottowa defies Ukraine’s objections to return of equipment for Nord Stream 1 pipeline, saying it needs to support Europe’s access to ‘reliable and affordable energy’

Canada will return a repaired Russian turbine to Germany that it needs for the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, despite objections from Ukraine, as the sanctions regime came up against the energy crisis sparked by the war.

Canada’s minister of natural resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, said in a statement on Saturday the government was issuing a “time-limited and revocable permit” to exempt the return of turbines from its Russian sanctions, to support “Europe’s ability to access reliable and affordable energy as they continue to transition away from Russian oil and gas”.

Wilkinson said the export permit was issued after discussions with “our European friends and allies”, and the International Energy Agency.

Russia’s Gazprom cut capacity on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Europe to just 40% of usual levels last month, citing the delayed return of equipment being serviced by Germany’s Siemens Energy in Canada. The Kremlin said on Friday it would increase gas supplies to Europe if the turbine were returned. The part is required for maintenance work due to start on Monday.

Canada – which has been under pressure from Germany to find a way to return the turbine – said “absent a necessary supply of natural gas, the German economy will suffer very significant hardship and Germans themselves will be at risk of being unable to heat their homes as winter approaches”….

… The turbine would be sent to Germany first, which will then deliver it to Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom, a government source told Reuters earlier this week.…

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: canada; energy; energyschadenfreude; fuel; inflation; itistolaugh; putin; putinpuffers; russia; sanctions; suicidesanctions; ukraine
I expected this to happen. The only alternative (other than a massive collapse of the German economy) would have been to start up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which would have made Germany look even worse.
1 posted on 07/09/2022 10:39:27 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides
face with tears of joy  face with tears of joy  face with tears of joy  face with tears of joy  face with tears of joy
2 posted on 07/09/2022 10:44:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: House Atreides; kiryandil

All of the boomeranging Suicide Sanctions need to be ended immediately.


3 posted on 07/09/2022 10:47:43 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: House Atreides; alexander_busek

I guess Germans & Busek crying like little girls in their dark house while taking cold showers finally melted Turdeaux’s heart.


4 posted on 07/09/2022 10:55:26 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

You’re so malicious...


5 posted on 07/09/2022 10:57:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: House Atreides

Bet Germany wishes they had all the gas back that they wasted in the gas chambers. /s


6 posted on 07/09/2022 11:01:56 PM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Neocons have no reverse gear...


7 posted on 07/09/2022 11:02:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: jcon40; WMarshal; JonPreston
Bet Germany wishes they had all the gas back that they wasted in the gas chambers. /s

Bobby Habeck, "Bareback" Baerbock and Oaf Doltz have got plenty of gas - just not the kind that Germany can use to heat itself.

8 posted on 07/09/2022 11:05:31 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Gene Eric; alexander_busek
"xxxx"

Thanks. The encouragement helps and I really try to do my best at it.

Here is Busek explaining to friends the effects that taking cold showers has on him.

"Ze cold, cold vater, it makes my nipples sho hard yet it shrivels my monkey!!!

9 posted on 07/09/2022 11:07:48 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal
Ze kaltes Wasser has NO regard for das monkey...
10 posted on 07/09/2022 11:10:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

11 posted on 07/09/2022 11:14:07 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

lol... Sprockets


12 posted on 07/09/2022 11:25:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: WMarshal

Was gesehen wurde kann nicht ungesehen gemacht werden!

CC


13 posted on 07/09/2022 11:26:22 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: House Atreides
GREAT RUSSIAN DOWNGRADE HAS BEGAN | Can We see It Now?
INSIDE RUSSIA (from a Russian)
https://youtu.be/kex7hYd6aLc

14 posted on 07/09/2022 11:32:12 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: All

Excellent Twitter site of Will Schryver who on Jan 13th wrote a series of very prescient tweets outlining the upcoming war. The first link is to his Twitter site. The second link to a roll out of his January war posts that have aged very well. The next four links are all from his brand new blog. The last link is to a chart of European Land Forces Comparison - 2022. This one chart offers the evidence that this war has been intended, planned.

https://twitter.com/imetatronink

https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1481759436364390401

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/destroying-mother-of-all-proxy-armies.html

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/the-united-states-could-not-win-and.html

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/a-birds-eye-view-of-ukraine-war.html

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/the-end-of-nato-american-imperial.html

https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1545093702644707328/photo/1


15 posted on 07/10/2022 1:23:18 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: House Atreides

Trudeau is a Marxist at heart and one should expect his government to act accordingly. For anyone paying attention, this decision to make an exception for Putin merely drops slightly Trudeau’s mask of deception.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 1:50:56 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Cathi

Thanks, Cathi, good stuff.


17 posted on 07/10/2022 2:59:21 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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