Open central Asian oil and gas pipelines to China, longest in the world:
Already connected to Russia at the western terminus.
Posted on 04/29/2014 9:29:37 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Russia warned Tuesday that American astronauts on the International Space Station could be hurt by new US-led sanctions over the escalating crisis in Ukraine, where pro-Moscow militants seized more public buildings in the east.
Washington was resorting to "Iron Curtain" policies from its Cold War-era playbook with the new Western sanctions, which were driving the Ukraine crisis towards "a dead end", Moscow raged.
A day after the United States and its EU and Japanese allies unveiled fresh punitive measures for what was seen as Russian interference in Ukraine, violence worsened on the ground.
Thousands of pro-Moscow protesters in the city of Lugansk near the Russian border seized control of the regional administrative building, trapping around 200 riot police in the complex's courtyard. Militants in the city already held the local SBU security services building.
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a threat is a threat...and I would have to call the ruksies on this one!
China would be happy to buy the gas, and the pipeline there will be complete by summer.
Nice space station y’a got there... wouldn’t want somethin’ bad to happen to it.
http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/38131china-unveils-space-station-research-plans
“China would be happy to buy the gas, and the pipeline there will be complete by summer.”
Also, as Germany has learned, it will take almost a decade to get themselves off of Russian gas, even if the Enviros would let them.
They have been trying to build more storage for two years now, and have yet to start due to enviro-nut lawsuits.
I doubt it. There is an oil pipeline from Siberia to China but the ‘Power of Siberia’ pipe for gas isn’t due to be completed for 4 or 5 years. On top of that, the gas that will be transported via the pipeline come from separate fields from those used to supply Europe.
And, just to be clear, the reason for the delay in the construction of the pipeline is that China flatly refuses to pay what the Europeans pay for their gas. I hardly see them picking up any slack if Europe starts cutting back on Russian gas.
Can’t we all just get along?
They are not trying very hard, as they are still selling Natural Gas assets to the Russians.
Berlin will not block deals with Russia by DEA and Wintershall
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-berlin-will-not-block-deals-with-russia-by-dea-and-wintershall-1974661
The German government will not object to the sale of utility RWE’s oil and gas production arm DEA to investors led by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman, a deputy minister said on Wednesday after some politicians had questioned the deal.
Critics of the sale argue against increasing German dependence on Russian energy supply and decision-making at a time when relations are deteriorating because of Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
“The security of (energy) supply is not threatened by the planned sale,” said Iris Gleicke, parliamentary state secretary at the Economy Ministry, adding that European Union measures also did not present an obstacle.
“The EU sanctions that have been decided so far against the background of the Ukraine crisis do not conflict with the possible sale,” she said in the lower house of the parliament, or Bundestag, on Wednesday.
Cheap energy is THE primary economic driver in the modern era.
And America has spent the best part of thirty years driving that cost UP for our own economy.
Too many forget the US developed cheap energy because we allowed the individuals that went out, invested capital and took risks the rewards. The government was kept mostly out of it.
Open central Asian oil and gas pipelines to China, longest in the world:
Already connected to Russia at the western terminus.
Yep. Obama gets to further damage the US while blaming the Russians.
Part of the plot in the movie, 2010, the follow up to 2001, A Space Odyssey. Russian, US tensions impacting the in space personnel.
From the article you linked to:
“Under the new deal with China, Gazprom would supply 38 billion cubic metres of gas a year, around a quarter of China’s current annual demand, from 2018 via a pipeline from Eastern Siberia that has yet to be built.”
The point is that the entire process will be accelerated, existing lines will be more completely used, and China will pay enough that Russia will not be badly hurt in the near future, and come out way ahead in four years, while the US and Western Europe energy superiority decline in the same period.
The point is, there are no existing natural gas pipelines between China and Russia.
China already has a small space station called Tiangong 1, but most people don’t know about it. I’ve seen it several nights flying from NW to SE. People often report it as a UFO because they don’t realize China has a space station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_program
More of a past rest stop than a comparable facility to the space station. In 2012, they sent people up to after its launch and stayed for 2 weeks. Then a year later they sent another one up for another two weeks. That was it. They don’t leave people up there. The are not planning to take people to it again.
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