Pipeline Cements Russia’s Hold on Europe’s Gas Supply

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/world/europe/19bulgaria.html?ref=business

January 19, 2008

Pipeline Cements Russia’s Hold on Europe’s Gas Supply

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER and JUDY DEMPSEY

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Russia strengthened its grip on Europe’s energy supplies on Friday as it signed a major gas deal with Bulgaria that analysts said would further undermine the European Union’s attempts to diversify its energy sources.

Under the agreement, the $15 billion South Stream pipeline will be built under the Black Sea, allowing Russia to send natural gas directly to Europe through Bulgaria and bypassing Turkey, which has been a crucial transit route for Russia’s gas exports to European markets.

The pact, signed by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Bulgarian counterpart, Georgi Parvanov, was sealed after late-night negotiations with Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy monopoly.

Mr. Putin and Mr. Parvanov also signed an agreement for the construction of a nuclear power plant, the first Russian one to be built in a European Union country. Construction began in the 1980s but was halted in 1990. Planning for the project was revived in 2003.

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[NNadir]

1. You mean the pipeline that the anti-nuke Gerhard Schroeder is paid to promote?

What a fucking surprise.

Every single place on earth that the anti-nuke cult has attacked the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy the result has been exactly the same: More dangerous fossil fuels, more dangerous fossil fuel waste and more death.

You want to know why this is happening?

Look in the mirror.