GAS PROBLEMS FOR MERKEL? The Novichock victim may not be a person
As Die Welt points out, stopping construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in retaliation for poisoning Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny could be costly to taxpayers. "The project has been approved by all responsible bodies in the EU, including national authorities in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland," says the president of the Eastern Committee of German Affairs , Oliver Hermes, now, amid US pressure and a case of a political nature, you risk sending everything to that country. But the price to pay would be very high.
Both Heiko Mass and Angela Merkel herself do not exclude the hypothesis of stopping Nord Stram 2 after the Russian dissident Navalny was poisoned with Novichock, a toxic gas that the Russians are believed to be in possession of at the Charitè hospital in Berlin. whose use was recalled in the UK Skripall case. In Gas which, however, fails to kill anyone and is also detectable, apparently. However, as we said, there would be a very high price to pay, given that the work is 94% complete and has only stopped due to US pressure. The interruption on the orders of Germany would lead to the creation of a right to compensation from all participating companies, and this is not a small amount, but 12 billion euros. 120 companies would be involved, some of which are also involved in the construction of secondary branches that bring gas to the Czech Republic. What should they do now?
Then the price to pay would be not only economic, but political. Germany and its close allies, the Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic, have focused almost everything on natural gas from Nord Stream 2 to overcome the energy transition, abandon coal and nuclear power, but have energy pending the affirmation of alternatives and of nuclear fusion. Without this source, overcoming the energy emergency caused by the application of senseless climate regulations, the new German mania, would be really very complicated. An energy policy should be redesigned to be based almost exclusively on Russian gas. Navalny has slowed the creation of the Berlin-Moscow-Beijing axis, and now someone has to foot the bill.
The Poles, who have been a little less rushed than the Germans, have built a first terminal for liquid natural gas, which travels by sea, and are planning a second one. in this way they will be able to buy gas on the world market from anyone who has it available. The Germans want to tie hands and feet to Russia, but then they also have to take a big hit of Novichock. You will see that the Navalny problem will eventually fade into the background and the only opponent of Nord Stream 2 will be Trump with his threatened sanctions. The Germans, in front of the money, put everything aside.
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