Posted on 09/27/2022 1:22:06 PM PDT by 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.”
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Oddly it could have been done on the Russian end with ease. In oil pipelines we send what we call “pigs” down the line to clean out accumulations of waxes that are contained in petroleum. This is very normal. It is just keeping the pipeline clean. The pigs push out the wax and are recovered down pipeline and the wax disposed off. It would be simple to blow up a pipeline if the pig was a pig that was explosive. One could even determine the desired position of explosion rather precisely. It should be noted this was a natural gas pipeline in no need of pigs as in crude oil lines.
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.”
You forgot China.
The same morons that let 3 million illegal aliens walk across the USA southern border to destabilize the USA blew up this pipeline to destabilize Russia and Europe.
This is one of the stupidest Brandon moves yet, right up there with giving Bagram and hundreds of Billions of armaments and aircraft to the Terrorist Taliban.
Russia most certainly will openly obtain revenge.
Brandon Junta does not want to give Russia any way out to save face - why? - because Brandon wants the war €£$.
“surrendered Russian sovereignty”
LOL, that’s a good one. Somehow not invading your neighbor is “surrending sovereignty”.
I’ll remember that the next time someone around FR objects to Mexicans crossing our borders illegally. It’s just Mexico “refusing to surrender sovereignty”, what is the problem?
Russia did this in response to Germany taking over Russia’s three refineries.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/16/germany-takes-control-of-russian-owned-refinery-.html
https://news.yahoo.com/germany-takes-over-subsidiary-russian-053743350.html
Well, natural gas can explode if there is enough air present, and there is an ignition source. Remember: Fuel (wood, gas, etc.) + Oxygen (air) + ignition source = combustion. With natural gas pipelines the gas is moved through the pipe by compressed air, but if there is no ignition source, it should not be explode. Well, that’s the basic theory, anyway. I would defer to a natural gas technician for more detail and specifics. But, there have been natural gas explosions that were not caused by sabotage.
Blowing them up seems crude. There’s other ways to shut it down without blowing it up.
You could try reading the article rather than expressing ignorance you know. We all know what the mainstream media wants us to believe. What fascinates me is how many freepers who pride themselves on dissent in one narrow political context are such stooges for the political factions they abhor in everything else.
Yep, Inside Job by WEF syncophants, basically the FJB cabal. This doddering old jerk's commie minions are going to get a whole bunch of us killed for that globalist garbage.
Based on the comments, “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.”
I certainty doesn’t sound like it was done for the benefit of Russia.
Gee, who would have done this?
They....
-Have submersibles which can puncture a reinforced steel and cement pipeline.
-Benefit from decreasing EU’s supply of gas while not violating Russia’s contract to supply the gas.
-Has little regard for multi-national, contracts, treaties or laws.
Yeah, who could that possibly be?
“You could try reading the article rather than expressing ignorance you know.”
Just because you post an article doesn’t mean the article is correct, and just because someone doesn’t agree with the premise of your article doesn’t mean that they are ignorant.
“What fascinates me is how many freepers who pride themselves on dissent in one narrow political context are such stooges for the political factions they abhor in everything else.”
What fascinates me is how many FReepers think that since they disagree in general with someone, then they must also be required to disagree in every particular as well. If the media said “the sky is blue”, they would be here posting “obviously, we know the media are liars, so the sky must be red”.
That would be Kearsarge. The only reason this caught my eye was because of a major nuclear event back in 1988 in the US and sister test in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. Dr. Viktor N. Mikhailov was a pure gentleman, and approachable scientist/leader!
Could a manned submersible do it?
🇳🇱 Pipelines are adjacent until proximal to Bornholm.
According to Freeper Travis McGee, a former Naval special warfare operator, the answer is yes
Probably MI-6 working with Polish operators.
UK and Poland seem to be the most likely, since the CIA wouldn’t want to be involved unless necessary. Better to have the cousins work with the Poles.
How do they gain?
I don’t see it.
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