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When one sees this, is there any wonder that Britain now thinks that
- long term supply contracts between Russia and continental Europe are detrimental for European energy supply
- that they have to be replaced with common European energy supply and policies system (so the Russians cannot blackmail 'us')
As Gordon Brown said in Observer on 1 September, 'Russians will not hold Britain for ransom...' He only forgot to mention that this is impossible because Britain does not import any gas from Russia.
System that has been built over 50 years and which never had any glitches now became dangerous, insecure and all that because Britain wants to get plugged into it but first wants to destroy the present system and design the one better suited to the island's political objectives.
That is how and why Russia became such a 'demon' over the past few months.
Actually, the UK is held for ransom by Statoil - with their fields, they are the biggest provider of winter swing volume and effectively control day-ahead pricing. But Norwegians are nice people, right?
"But Norwegians are nice people, right?"
Aren't they the same crowd that used to be called Viking raiders? :-)
But why is it going to take them months to fix a leak in the gas pipe? Surely they haven't just shut it down to conserve supplies?
Not at all, the UK is held to ransom by our government's lack of planning. Blaming Russia, Statoil or whoever is a bit like me blaming the credit card companies for the fact that I've bought a new car, holiday, kitchen and TV that I couldn't afford in the first place.
Britain is not alone in doing this, but any country that sets up an ongoing assumption that those essential items for life (water, food, energy) can ALWAYS be supplied from somewhere else is going to be 'held to ransom' as soon as those assumptions turns out to be wrong.