On 27 September the Baltic Pipes, the new gas pipeline that will connect Norway, Denmark and Poland. The project started in 2013 and cost 267 million euros. It is a strategic infrastructure that connects to another pipeline, theEuropepipe II, which extracts natural gas from the North Sea.
The structure was made by the Danish company energy net and from Polish society Gas-System, with the financial support of the Connecting Europe Facility of the EU. Eautostat notes that the Norwegian public gas giant, Equinor, before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2020 it invoiced about 200 million euros a month from Europe, but already in January of this year, close to the Russian invasion, Norway was invoicing 2 billion euros a month, bringing the profit of the first half of the year to ten billion euros. Another three-four billion are sold to non-EU countries.
Oslo, in essence, benefited from Putini's military campaign starting in December 2021, when Moscow decided to decrease methane gas flows to Europe. With the start of the Baltic Pipe, Norwegian revenues will grow considerably to the advantage of the dometic economy, as at the moment there are no openings for financial or speculative sharing in favor of Europe. The conspiracy theorists think that the sabotage of the NordStream I and II gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea could have the Norwegian authorship which aims to become the first player in the transfer of gas to Europe, given the situation of international crisis in progress that has seen during the months to decrease more and more Gazprom flows towards the Old Continent.
Russian suspicions of sabotage
On the story of four leaks in the Nordstream I and II pipelines in the Baltic, Russian intelligence claims to already have some evidence pointing to a role of the West in organizing and carrying out the explosions that knocked out pipelines. This was stated by the head of the external Russian intelligence service Sergey Naryshkin, according to what the news agency Ria Novosti reported today.
"We already have some materials that point the western trail in organizing and implementing the terrorist attack"To the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, said the head of the SVR, Sergey Naryshkin. "In my opinion, the West is doing everything to hide the real perpetrators and organizers of this terrorist attack ", he added.
Also Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, reiterated that "the damage caused to the Nord Stream gas pipeline is due to an unprecedented act of state terrorism and we cannot do without a serious international investigation. Obviously, such an unprecedented act, one could say, of state terrorism, cannot and should not do without a serious international investigation. Of course, cooperation will be needed in this investigation ", said the Kremlin spokesman.
The position of the USA
"Only once the investigation into the nature of the explosions that caused four gas leaks from Nord Stream 1 and 2 is "completed" will it be possible to "determine with certainty what happened". The US Secretary of Defense said today, Lloyd Austin, after a bilateral trip to Hawaii with his Filipino counterpart, Jose Faustino Jr.
According to reports from CNN, Austin - who in the past few hours spoke with Danish Defense Minister Morten Bodskov - said he had offered the Copenhagen government "all the assistance the United States can provide ”. "Until we have more information or are able to do further analysis, we will not speculate on who may have been responsible", added the secretary of defense.
The environmental impact
According to Greenpeace, the potential climate impact of the methane spill from Nord stream 1 + 2 could be “30 million tons of CO2 equivalent over a 20-year period. Equal to the annual emissions of 20 million cars in the EU ”.