Sunday, 28 August 2022

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Portovaya is a Russian plant, connected to the Nordstream 1 pipeline, designed to take gas to Germany. Supplies to Germay have now been much reduced, as a consequence of that country's opposition to the war in Ukraine. Portovaya appears to be burning off £8.4m worth of gas each day (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/russian-plant-portovaya-burning-off-8m-of-gas-a-day-as-supply-to-germany-is-limited). Portovaya is North-East of St Petersberg and close to the Finnish border. Environmentalists are very concerned by the amounts of carbon dioxide and soot released by Portovaya's flares. Not only is Germany being starved of gas (and considering restarting some coal-fired power stations), the planet continues to have 'greenhouse gases', associated with the Russian 'export' uselessly pumped into its atmosphere. It's just like having an unwanted giant gas patio heater in the middle of the countryside? It's not only Ukraine that is being attacked!
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