Entire cities in Europe could freeze over during the cold peak of winter, CEO of Russian energy major Gazprom, Aleksey Miller warned, speaking at Russian Energy Week on Wednesday.
The region will struggle to survive through the winter and may run out of gas by March, 2023. Europe may lack about 800 million cubic meters of gas per day which represents a third of the EU’s total consumption.
In the worst case scenario set out by Miller, gas storage facilities in the region will only be 5% full by March, 2023. No one can guarantee that Europe will survive the winter with the current amount of gas reserves.
But if the bloc manages to scramble through this heating season, the question is remains what will happen with the uploading for the next winter. Gazprom reminded that Russia used to export between 0.6 to 1.7 billion cubic meters of gas per day to Europe in winter.
Miller called the idea of gas rationing, which Europe is set to introduce, doubtful, pointing at a lack of an implementation mechanism and storage. This scenario is even grimmer when Europe is to experience the coldest winter in decades as predicted by weather specialists.
In September European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asked EU member nations to introduce mandatory energy curbs, calling on the bloc to flatten the curve of demand, leading to civilian shortages.
Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that the EU will have to reduce its demand by up to 13% in the face of unprecedented risks to gas supplies this winter.
Washington sealed the fate of Europe this winter when it sabotaged the gas pipelines. Although the EU has already filled its storage to 88%, the IEA said that 90% is required should there be further blockades to supplies, a late winter cold spell, and a lack of LNG.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2022.
Most European homes do not even have the means to burn wood any more. Chimneys have been progressively removed as homes converted to gas or electric heating.
Ursula has a dictatorial streak in her. With the wave of her hand she resigns Europeans to a totally avoidable hardship that will likely lead to the grave suffering if not death of Europe’s most vulnerable. Culling the herd?
Once the factories close down for good and EU becomes a rust belt, the people will have lots of free time to collect and chop wood. You will own nothing and be happy.
Today we are revisiting how the colonizers plunder their colony. This time it is the European colonies that are being plundered by the USA. The wealth of Europe is being plundered by means of expensive US LNG forced upon them by the US regime. And blowing up the NS1 and NS2 pipeline is a dastardly way of ensuring the plunder continues.
That’s the plan?