Will new gas pipeline provide energy security?

Though the Russia-Ukraine crisis has not been allowed to affect the pioneering agreement to build a $7 billion gas pipeline linking Iran, Pakistan and India, it did remind the world of the perils of what is called “pipeline power.”

The proposed 2,100km pipeline, which could lay the foundations of a more stable South Asian polity, is wisely predicated on the axiom that there is no such thing as a free lunch in politics. Looking ahead to the future, an Indian parliamentary committee warned that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government “should not allow itself to be taken by surprise at any stage.”

The Korea Herald