The pipeline carrying gas from the Norwegian shelf is central to Poland’s plan to diversify away from Russian supplies that began years before the invasion of Ukraine. Source Views: 0
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Baltic Pipe: Norway-Poland gas pipeline opens in key move to cut dependency on Russia
Uganda condemns EU resolution slamming oil pipeline
By 2025, Uganda will have its oil coming out of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) as planned. Those were the comments of president Yoweri Museveni, who reaffirmed his determination to have the project completed. His reaction came Friday following a resolution by the European Union’s Parliament urging the international community “to exert maximum […]
White House Press Secretary Calls Nord Stream 1 Pipeline “Nordstrom 1”
Update (2030ET): As was expected earlier, California power usage surged to a record high this afternoon raising the emergency status of the state’s electrical system to the highest possible level amid a blistering heat wave, which means rolling blackouts are imminent. This triggered a “demand response event”… And CA ISO is warning of more “blackouts imminent”. “This […]
White House Press Secretary Calls Nord Stream 1 Pipeline “Nordstrom 1”
Update (2030ET): As was expected earlier, California power usage surged to a record high this afternoon raising the emergency status of the state’s electrical system to the highest possible level amid a blistering heat wave, which means rolling blackouts are imminent. This triggered a “demand response event”… And CA ISO is warning of more “blackouts imminent”. “This […]
ENI: EastMed pipeline to be completed by 2025
The Eastmed pipeline will be fully completed by 2025, ENI official Guido Brusco said earlier on Tuesday during an event in Milan, Reuters reported. EastMed is a subsea pipeline designed to supply natural gas to Europe from the eastern Mediterranean and will start from Israel and go through Cyprus, Greece and reach Italy with a […]
ENI: EastMed pipeline to be completed by 2025
The Eastmed pipeline will be fully completed by 2025, ENI official Guido Brusco said earlier on Tuesday during an event in Milan, Reuters reported. EastMed is a subsea pipeline designed to supply natural gas to Europe from the eastern Mediterranean and will start from Israel and go through Cyprus, Greece and reach Italy with a […]
Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline to benefit 340m people
Morocco has stated that the Moroccan-Nigerian gas pipeline project will positively affect more than 340 million people. This came during the symposium, A New Vision to Accelerate Production and Investment in the Context of Energy Transition, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. “This huge project that passes through 13 countries will have a direct positive impact […]
Manchin Side Deal Would Fast-Track Controversial Pipeline
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, is the biggest investment the U.S. government has made to date in fighting the climate crisis. Yet in order to persuade West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to support the landmark legislation, party leaders made a side deal with the pro-fossil-fuel Senator to pass additional legislation […]
Russia’s Gazprom Shuts Down Nord Stream 1 Pipeline Indefinitely, Gas Prices Soar in Germany
Russian state-owned energy corporation Gazprom has scrapped plans to restart gas flows through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, offering no answers as to when operations would resume back to normal. On Aug. 19, Gazprom announced that it would stop gas flows through the pipeline between Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 due to routine […]
Russia to shut down Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe ‘completely’
Russian gas giant Gazprom will completely shut down the Nord Stream pipeline, until a turbine is repaired – even though services were due to resume on Saturday after a maintenance operation. In a statement, Gazprom said it had discovered “oil leaks” in the turbine during the maintenance tasks, and that “until the repair (…) the […]
Russia to shut down Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe ‘completely’
Russian gas giant Gazprom will completely shut down the Nord Stream pipeline, until a turbine is repaired – even though services were due to resume on Saturday after a maintenance operation. In a statement, Gazprom said it had discovered “oil leaks” in the turbine during the maintenance tasks, and that “until the repair (…) the […]
Canada’s Brutal And Dangerous ‘Pipeline Police’
The expansion of oil and gas exports has become a strategic priority for a major section of the capitalist class in Canada and its political enablers. The declining possibilities for export to the US, moreover, have led ‘business and political leaders…to pivot to East Asia, particularly China.’ This has involved the development of the required infrastructure […]
Canada’s big banks are secretly supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion
“Once again, we see that Canadian banks are leading the world in financing climate-destructive, Indigenous rights-violating projects,” said one campaigner. Views: 0
Oil pipeline Canada bought will cost over $25 billion and never turn profit
Climate activists on Wednesday reiterated calls to cancel Canada’s expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline after a new analysis found that a recent pledge to not put any public money into the project “is a promise that the government can’t keep.” “The only solution is to cancel it.” “The only solution is to cancel it,” tweeted Wilderness Committee campaigner […]
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline
Unceded Gidimt’en territory, so-called Smithers, British Columbia, Canada – On Friday, February 25, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and City National Bank (CNB) executives demanding the bank withdraw financing for the Coastal GasLink pipeline by March 11. The meeting marked the first-ever meeting between RBC leadership and Indigenous land defenders, […]
The Indigenous Grandmothers Who Stopped A Pipeline
Above Photo: Mi’kmaq grandmothers and supporters celebrate the cancellation of the Alton Gas project. Darren Calabrese. Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers. Cheryl Maloney’s eyes glossed over with tears as she stood near the bank of the Stewiacke River in the middle of Nova Scotia. The […]
Libya’s oil output drops by 200,000 due to damaged pipeline
Libya’s oil output has dropped by about 200,000 barrels a day after the closure of a leaking pipeline, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation said, late Saturday, that the main pipeline linking the eastern Samah and Dhuhra fields to the country’s biggest export terminal, Es Sider, will be shut for […]