![]() ![]() ![]() "We assume the wind on the leak area blew the methane emissions north to the Finnish archipelago, then bend toward Sweden and Norway," said Stephen Platt, a professor with the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, part of the group. The Integrated Carbon Observation System, a European research alliance, said "an enormous amount of methane gas has been released into the atmosphere" from the damaged pipelines, about the amount of a whole year's methane emissions for a city the size of Paris or a country like Denmark. Large amount of methane leaked into atmosphereĪt the same time as the argument over who was to blame for the damage was occurring, Norwegian researchers published a map projecting that a huge plume of methane leaked from the damaged pipelines will travel over large swaths of the Nordic region. NATO has warned it would retaliate for any attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 member countries and joined other Western officials in citing sabotage as the likely cause of damage.ĭenmark is a NATO member, and Sweden is in the process of joining the military alliance.īoth say the pipelines were deliberately attacked.Īt the UN, Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council while neither Sweden or Denmark will be represented at the meeting on Friday as they are not members. The leaks occurred in international waters and "have caused plumes of gas rising to the surface," the two Scandinavian countries wrote in a letter to the United Nations. Meanwhile, Denmark and Sweden said on Friday the explosions that rocked the Baltic Sea ahead of the huge methane leaks from the pipelines "probably corresponded to an explosive load of several hundred kilos." Russia stopped gas flows through the 1,224km-long Nord Stream 1 earlier this month, blaming technical problems, while the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline had never opened. Russians reducing personnel at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukrainian intelligence says.CIA moves to recruit spies as satellite photos reveal potential Wagner camp in Belarus.Ukraine ambassador asks Foreign Minister Penny Wong to visit Kyiv amid calls for more weaponry.Read more on Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Since the war in Ukraine began in February, Russia has cut back supplies of natural gas sent to Europe to heat homes, generate electricity and run factories.Įuropean leaders have accused Mr Putin of using "energy blackmail" to divide them in their strong support for Ukraine. The US has long opposed the two pipelines and had repeatedly urged Germany to halt them, saying they increased Europe's energy dependence on Russia and decreased its security. Mr Putin's spokesman has said "it looks like a terror attack, probably conducted on a state level." Europe claims Russia will benefit from damageĮuropean nations, which have been reeling under soaring energy prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, have noted that it is Russia, not Europe, that benefits from chaos in the energy markets and spiking prices for energy. ![]() Vladimir Putin made the claims about the pipelines at a ceremony declaring the annexation of Russian-controlled territories in Ukraine. Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, made a host of allegations implicating the US in sabotage, including that it would benefit the US gas industry. There is no estimate of how long it will take, he said, "but we can say with certainty that the task will be very daunting from a technical standpoint." Mr Kupriyanov said in a video briefing that Gazprom has begun searching for possible solutions to make the Nord Stream system operational again. The argument between the United States and Russia continued later at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York called by Russia about the attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.Īt the UN, Sergey Kupriyanov, spokesman for the Russian state-owned company Gazprom, which is the majority stakeholder in Nord Stream, told the council that data regarding the sudden drop in pressure in the pipeline and the gas leakage "make it possible to say with certainty that the leaks in the pipelines was caused by physical damage." "We're not going to let Russia's disinformation distract us or the world from its transparently fraudulent attempt to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory," White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said. US officials said claims by Mr Putin was an attempt to shift attention from his annexation of parts of Ukraine on Friday. "Just don't listen to what Putin's saying. ![]()
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