{"id":342113,"date":"2024-09-06T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342113"},"modified":"2024-09-06T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:18:08","slug":"russian-natural-gas-junkie-eu-imports-more-from-russia-than-from-usa-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342113","title":{"rendered":"Russian Natural Gas Junkie EU Imports More From Russia Than From USA Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green energies cannot liberate EU, which remains Russian natural gas junkie.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showing support for peace initiatives to curb the Russia-Ukraine conflict quickly gets you labelled a Putin-appeaser here in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And just imagine the reaction you might risk getting if you called on ramping up more gas imports from Russia, where the energy is cheap and plentiful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incredibly, that\u2019s what many European countries have been doing lately: importing lots of gas from Russia to meet their appetite for cheap, reliable and efficient energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hat-tip: European Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s DPA news agency reports, citing a study by think tank Bruegel: \u201cFor the first time in almost two years, the countries of the European Union imported more natural gas from Russia than from the United States in a single quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From April to June this year, the EU purchased more than 12.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia, compared to 12.3 billion from the USA, the think tank reports. Currently Norway delivers the most gas to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Germany no longer purchases gas from Russia, Russia has risen to second place among suppliers across the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign affairs expert Norbert R\u00f6ttgen of Germany\u2019s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has called for an EU-wide ban on imports of Russian gas. \u201cThe Europeans are supporting Ukraine with billions and at the same time paying billions into Putin\u2019s war chest \u2013 that is neither responsible, rational nor credible,\u201d said R\u00f6ttgen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The policy contradiction illustrates just how desperate the EU is for low-cost energy, and how EU countries don\u2019t always dance to the music they like to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile other Europeans are calling for a complete ban of the Russian energy: \u201cImporting Russian gas equals supporting the Russian war economy and its war on Ukraine,\u201d says Ville Niinist\u00f6, a green Finnish MEP. \u201cWe must continue to push for a total ban of Russian gas to EU markets and to limit its markets elsewhere globally as much as possible,\u201d he told Euractiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FDP energy policy spokesman, Michael Kruse, on the other hand, sees the Russian imports as a source of tax revenue, and is calling for \u201ca surcharge\u201d on the price of Russian import gas, which could be used to help finance weapons deliveries to Ukraine. In other words, German consumers should be forced to foot the war bills by paying more for energy that is already expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, Austria made a commitment to \u201cphase out Russian natural gas supplies by 2027\u201d, but that commitment was \u201cnon-binding.\u201d Europe has obviously realized that even though it is at war with Russia, the continent still has to rely on Russia to meet its energy needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that green energy hasn\u2019t done anything \u2013 except make energy and living far more expensive, and EU citizens poorer. It\u2019s Games Without Frontiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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