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indeolie on September 5, 2008 - 4:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

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?

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tonyw on September 5, 2008 - 12:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"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?

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KiltedGreen on September 10, 2008 - 4:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

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.

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