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EU energy chief not ruling out ‘worst case scenarios’ on energy security
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger warned on Tuesday he was not ruling out “worst case scenarios” on Europe’s energy security due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “lies” amid Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
“That Putin would use false information, lies and weapons was beyond my imagination,” Oettinger said at an event of German energy utility RWE in Brussels.
“That’s why I am not ruling out worst case scenarios any more,” he added, referring to Europe’s energy security.
The war in Ukraine, which has led to the worst stand-off between Russia and the West since the Cold War, has heightened fears in Europe of gas shortages in the winter.
Russia is Europe’s biggest supplier of oil, coal and natural gas, and its pipelines through Ukraine are currently subject to political maneuvering, not for the first time, as the West and Moscow clash over the latter’s military action in Ukraine.
Oettinger is mediating talks between Russia and Ukraine to resolve a gas pricing row and avert a damaging supply cut in the winter.
On Tuesday he said that he feared the advance of pro-Russian separatists toward the port city of Mariupol in the south of Ukraine could create a corridor stretching from there to Crimea, which Russia annexed in March, and Russian-speaking breakaway state Transnistria.
“Then Ukraine would be cut off from the Black Sea.”
EU countries and the United States have responded to Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine by imposing economic sanctions on Russia and are set to tighten them further this week.
5 Comments on "EU energy chief not ruling out ‘worst case scenarios’ on energy security"
markisha on Wed, 3rd Sep 2014 8:30 am
Poor Oettinger, He doesn’t know how to lie
Makati1 on Wed, 3rd Sep 2014 8:42 am
Hahahaha. Nice comment markisha. Lies are all we get from anyone in the West these days. They are beginning to realize that winter is coming and Putin holds all the cards …er… heat.
“EU countries and the United States have responded to Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine by imposing economic sanctions on Russia and are set to tighten them further this week.”
What is the definition of stupidity again?
JuanP on Wed, 3rd Sep 2014 9:13 am
This guy is a complete imbecile. Almost everything he said is a lie. What BS!
I am very concerned about the Ukraine proxy civil war between the USA and Russia. This could go nuclear in time. I don’t see either party backing down any time soon. I admit that for the first time in my adult life I am worried about the possibility of a nuclear war between the USA and Russia.
I grew up in a proxy civil war caused by the KGB and the CIA in my country, Uruguay. I can’t overstate how offensive I find the actions of all parties in this conflict, but I mostly consider most of the Ukrainian people to be innocent victims.
JuanP on Wed, 3rd Sep 2014 9:40 am
To be accurate I lived three years in a proxy civil war, and then 13 in a consequent military junta dictatorship. When I talk about the Kiev junta, I know exactly what I’m talking about from personal experience.
I was the victim of an indiscriminate terrorist attack as a small child, when an urban guerrilla fighter threw a grenade in the middle of the market where I was shopping with my mother and my family’s maid. I was four at the time.
The school my sisters attended was bombed, as were the clubs where I went to the pool in summer. I had friends kidnapped and knew people who dissapeared. I had friends and family on both sides of the divide.
This why the Ukraine crisis feels close to me.
It sucks for everybody in Ukraine today, except the psychos.
Kenz300 on Wed, 3rd Sep 2014 12:51 pm
One more reason to speed up the transition to alternative energy sources.
Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels made from algae, cellulose and waste need no supplies from Russia.
Every country needs to develop a plan to become more energy secure and economically secure by developing their own alternative energy sources.