Update (0842ET):
Sweden’s government held a crisis management meeting with other public authorities over the damage to the Nord Stream pipeline system, Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbaldet said, citing comments from Foreign Minister Ann Linde.
Linde said Sweden may discuss the pipeline damage with Denmark later today.
Denmark is tightening security around all energy assets as some European officials speculate the NS pipeline system was sabotaged.
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The plot thickens about what caused damage to three lines of the Nord Stream gas-pipeline system under the Baltic Sea to Europe as some European officials now suspect sabotage.
Nord Stream AG, the operator of the NS pipeline system, published a statement Tuesday that read, “the destruction that happened within one day at three lines of the Nord Stream pipeline system is unprecedented … and impossible now to estimate the timeframe for restoring operations of the gas shipment infrastructure.”
On Monday, NS2 gas pipeline and two NS1 lines reported rapid pressure drops, with gas leaks reported by Swedish and Danish authorities in the Baltic Sea near the exclusive economic zone southeast of Bornholm island.
A more in-depth view of the incident area.
Pressure drops in the NS gas-pipeline system could be the biggest signal that flows via NS1 might not resume this winter. Germany and surrounding countries are investigating the incident. NS2 cannot impact flows to the EU because the controversial idled conduit was never operational after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz canceled it after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year.
Klaus Mueller, the president of the German energy network regulator, tweeted that the market situation remains “tense,” but Germany and the EU are no longer dependent on NS supplies.
Nord Stream AG issued an outage message that is active until Oct. 26, while the German economy ministry said it’s investigating the incident.
Dutch front-month gas, the European benchmark, was up nearly 10% at 190.50 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday morning.
The simultaneous pressure drop of the NS lines suggests some market participants may watch for any indication of sabotage.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said it was hard to imagine NS gas leaks were caused by a “coincidence.”
Frederiksen didn’t rule out sabotage, though she said it was too early to draw any conclusions, according to Reuters, quoting public broadcaster DR during a visit to Poland.
A German security official told Bloomberg that NS damage appears to be the result of “sabotage.”
The evidence points to a violent act, rather than a technical issue, according to a German security official, who asked not to be identified because the matter is being probed. -Bloomberg
German daily newspaper Tagesspiegel reported that “the Nord Stream pipelines may have been damaged by targeted attacks and leaked as a result.”
A source close to the government, quoted in the newspaper, said, “everything speaks against a coincidence.”
“We cannot imagine a scenario that is not a targeted attack,” the source said.
Die Welt, another German newspaper, reported the timing of the NS damage may suggest sabotage and was unlikely to be an accident.
Reporters asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov if the NS system’s pressure drop could be due to sabotage. He responded: “It is impossible to exclude any options.”
There appears to be no immediate end to the gas leak from NS pipelines, according to the Danish national daily newspaper Berlingske, which quoted Danish Energy Authority.
The energy authority said, “a lot of gas is coming out, so it is not a small crack, it’s a really big hole. Nord Stream leaks can be a deliberate act, but it can also be something else, it’s just extremely rare that something like this happens.”
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Dam – Maniacal intent for war. Those Bastards
Perfect song for this thread. Especially if you like the Beastie Boys.
I would dare to say this is an attempt to prevent a resumption of normal deliveries more than just cutting off the small amounts being delivered currently. I also wonder if this in any way affects the “rogue” countries like Hungary which are still doing normal energy trade with Russia?
Eyes on Poland and Slovakia, the only other two countries with a pipeline connecting from Russia to Germany. Oh, the tangled web they have woven….
I don’t think they have the underwater special forces to pull off the sabotage. The US has excelled at that since The Maine.
The Maine sank because of an explosion in the coal bunker, not underwater sabotage. The Hearst syndicate papers floated (pardon the pun) the underwater sabotage story to sell papers and tip public sentiment toward war.
Who cudda nowed? Lolz
MoAr theater for the masses.
You can’t raise a Caine back up when he ‘s in defeat.
“MEP”
Anyone with that designation should be on the list.
Good point. Great song too.
Who benefits by breaking these pipelines?
Not Russia. They’d like nothing more than the Europeans to grow tired of freezing in the dark, drop sanctions and start paying for Russian gas again. Russia simply then needs to turn the pipelines back on. They have no reason to damage their own pipelines.
Not the Middle East. They already have enough takers for their fuel.
I submit the US and Ukraine benefit most by destroying these pipelines. It puts Europe’s back against the wall, so they must go along with continuing the war in Ukraine. US politicians get to continue their money laundering through the Ukraine, and can now expand their operations into Europe, whose desperate politicians will go along with whatever terms for fuel the US demands, or else find themselves open to attacks by the public, who after watching their families starve and freeze this winter, will be looking to take direct action against those responsible for their suffering and misery.
Poland.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/27/baltic-pipe-norway-poland-gas-pipeline-opens-in-key-move-to-cut-dependency-on-russia
What a coincidence!
On Thursday morning [9/22], a naval unit of the US Navy passed Fehmarn. The “USS Kearsarge” as flagship was the largest, accompanied by the landing ships “USS Arlington” and “USS Gunston Hall”.
(Note: Fehmarn is about 150 miles (240 km) west of Bornholm, shown in the maps above.)
Translated from https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/schleswig-holstein/fehmarn/grosser-flottenverband-der-us-navy-passiert-fehmarnbelt-91809308.html
Oh, come on, man! This was just shoddy German workmanship!
Thats a huge crackd’d pipe.
Hunter’s lips are all over this crime scene. LOL!
Riiiiight. hahahaha!
Hey Klaus! Soooo, from exactly where is Germany getting gas?? Yer daddy ….. Santa Klaus?
Zhey are going to freeze and be happy.
Everyone has been ordered to eat a pound of sauerkraut every day and they are installing thunder domes on every street corner.
Just think how stupid the Europeons are to consider Uncle Sam their “ally”. We started the Syrian Civil War that flooded them with diversity and now we’re forcing them to buy our LNG. I wouldn’t be surprised if that retarded Swedish girl was a CIA op.
“To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
H. Kissinger
nota bene; normally, I wouldn’t quote that bastard.
“Take THAT, Russia!”
(Slap fight moves, West hits itself in the face.)
Got a match?
Please get hit by lightning.
Update (0932ET):
Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that the Swedish National Seismic Network detected two underwater explosions near the Nord Stream pipeline system on Monday.
“One of the explosions had a magnitude of 2.3, and was registered at as many as 30 measuring stations in southern Sweden,” SVT said.
Bjorn Lund, a professor in seismology and director of the Swedish National Seismic Network, said these two seismic events were explosions.
Update (1025ET):
AFP News reported the US is ‘ready to provide support’ to Europe after the Nord Stream pipeline system leaks.
There was no further information on what type of support, but one can only imagine it would involve increased LNG cargo shipments to the EU.
There’s only one issue…
Has the level of the Rhine risen yet? Will they be sending 1/2 full tankers to reduce draft?
Romania is sending donkeys and carts!
A boat load of Nigerians are heading that way with plastic five gal. buckets to help with the salvaging effort.
But there are no spare LNG tankers just laying around.
How can MORE be shipped if there are no ships to ship it?
That’s the point. These psychopaths want to destroy it all.
I would think an LNG tanker hit by an anti-ship missile would result in a conflagration equivalent to a low-yield nuke.
The name of that ship might be known as Liberty2.
maybe sabotage? er, as the germans say.. ohne scheiss!
no shit it was sabotaged!
it remains to be seen by whom!
Who benefits?
Not Russians. Not Europeans.
Who remains?
They don’t even have the competency to maintain the secrecy component of conspiracies. They just trust the propaganda department to straighten it all out for them.
Russia will sell LNG to the rest of the world through China and the expanded pipelines. Nothing to see here.
If you have gas heat and are on the nuclear power grid, stock up on electric space heaters.
I think Tesla has a fairly comfortable electric heater. Nice view too.
“May have been” sabotaged. Everyone is a comedian.
Enjoying the show.
We did a couple ops with SEALs. I can see them being too stupid to fear for their souls.
By design Ken.
Oh, it is sabotage. The questions are who and why?
c eye eh….
Who: They. Why: Kill people
Why: So Europe don’t go running back to Russia.
Who: USA so we can sell gas to Europe.
Not just that. We’ve also destroyed the German economy, and the EU economy by extension. Leaving America as the only safe harbor. It’s not just about gas.
USN, because the USG are evil psychopaths.
I wonder if he was supposed to say that, and if not, when do they consider him a liability?
They failed WWI and WWII and now they go for a third extermination. The Bolsheviks won’t stop until every last German is dead.
At Teheran conference 1943 , Stalin, Molotov,. Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt’s son Elliot joked about mass murdering 100,000 German soldiers prisoners , just like Stalin did in Poland with the Polish soldiers, which was covered up by the Bolshevik controlled Roosevelt and Churchill administrations.
This time Uncle Schlomo might succeed .
Holden Caulfield
@realHoldenCaulfield
Sources within my Danish Intelligence Commando Killteam contacts have released this drone footage taken moments before the Nord Stream attack, please circulate and notify the local Danish consulate if you have seen this man
Ghost of Kiev!
Remember when the greenies made a stink over leaking methane from fracking operations ?all quiet about this huge leak .
Average depth of Baltic Sea is 180 feet. I don’t know where the damage is, but a diver could likely access the pipeline and destroy a section very easily.
Very easily… I’ve done numerous dives to 200ft on nothing but standard air tanks… Go NO2 and mixed gas and you can go deeper and longer, saturation diving. I wonder who could do saturation diving from a sub???
Well the (latter) explosion was a 2.2 magnitude “quake” as measured by the Swedes:
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7054550/mag2quake-Sep-26-2022-Sweden-BALTIC-SEA.html
says “released Energy is 35 kWh.” According to some online converter that would equal 30 kg TNT.
66 pounds of TNT, that’s all?
Is this what the German politician was alluding to when he talked about the world not being the same after sept.24th?
that would connect some dots….good catch.
This was obviously done by Ukraine. Any good criminal investigation begins with the question who would benefit.
There are 2 ways gas can get to Europe from Russia, one is via Nordstream, and the other overland through Ukraine.
If Nordstream is damaged, then the Ukrainian pipelines are the only source. This gives Ukraine the power to blackmail Europe into giving them aid, even if Europe decides it is a lost cause.
Ukraine is and always has been a crime syndicate masquerading as a country, and it is now trying to expand this war into WW3.
Ukraine has always been the laundering and proxy house for the USA and been masquerading as a country… FIFY
Those stealth (invisible) Ukrainian subs are really dangerous!
I heard it was North Korean sub.
Iranian or Syrian would be my bet.
Or maybe the Swiss navy, as revenge for their country’s company not building NS2.
My buddy told me it was Space Force , crashed into it after bouncing off the asteroid yesterday.
So the US can supply anti ship missiles, but not underwater drones…. your logic is impeccable….
To the Ukrainians?
Where to, Odessa??
(Or the Poles agreed to give the Ukrainian commandos a home port?)
So now you need a port to launch a drone? Are you really that uninformed?
Where would you launch an underwater drone from?
(Or where you’d launch the Ukrainian ship, from which you then launch the underwater drone?)
I so far haven’t heard of a flying drone which can also dive into the sea and keep functioning and move underwater…
So now we have here the propaganda department. I suppose now you will tell us Russia did it for no logical reason….. The fact that Biden threatened it and Ukraine is the sole beneficiary is something we should ignore and simply adopt whatever moronic Bullshit the CIA/MSM is peddling…..
Dude – it was the USA. Period. With the pipelines gone, Europe has no incentive to change course, end the sanctions on Russia, beg Russia to turn the gas on and acquiesce to a peace deal leaving a shrunken Ukraine. The US gets everything it wants: a continuing war that “weakens” Russia (too bad about those dying Ukies, but you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs), an economically hobbled Europe (our “allies” – LOL) and eventually a captive market for American LNG.
We’re fucking over Western Europe so bad it makes me think that was our main reason for instigating the Ukraine-Russia war in the first place. And the STUPID EUROPEONS are THANKING us for it!
Apparently Greta Thunberg isn’t a one-off. The whole continent is a bunch of fucking retards.
Yeah but WWI and WWII. /s
Uncle Stasi-Sam just shot Europe in the leg, and let them know that we’ll let you bleed out if you don’t comply.
Did you hit your head recently?
Like the old saying goes, Never take means, motive, and opportunity into account.
Some people are already starting to put puzzle pieces together:
https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/4909
Auto-translated:
“Paranoia is paranoid, but on September 2, we drew attention to interesting maneuvers performed by an American helicopter with the call sign FFAB123. Then we assumed that this board was from the USS Kearsarge air wing, and today we looked at it in more detail.
According to the website ads-b.nl , this call sign was used by 6 boards that day, of which we managed to establish the side numbers of three. All of them are Sikorsky MH-60S.
By superimposing the FFAB123 route on the scheme of yesterday’s accident, we get a rather interesting result — the helicopter either flew along the Nord Stream-2 highway, or even between the points where the accident occurred.
On Twitter, meanwhile, there were screenshots of other flights of American aviation — the following screenshot was taken on September 13.
And finally, we need to pay attention to the June article in Sea Power, where the Americans brag about experiments in the field of underwater drones, which they put on exercises BALTOPS 22 — just in the area of the island of Bornholm.”
easy to ‘warn’ of a coming action when you’re the one doing it and you know all about it.
so it seems the washington deep state sabotaged the pipelines.. will there be any tit-for-tat coming up soon?
CIA: Clandestine and impenetrable when it benefits them, leaky as an old tub the rest of the time.
MAY have been sabotaged??
ZH needs to pull their heads out of their asses. (I prefer they go belly up.)
Here, let this fuktard tell you first hand who is behind this sabotage.
“The War On Germany Just Entered Its Hot Phase”
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-war-on-germany-just-entered-its-hot-phase.html#more
“Sitrep on Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines”
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https://thesaker.is/sitrep-on-nord-stream-1-and-2-gas-pipelines/
The US has doomed millions of Europeans to certain death and starvation this winter.
Let that sin weigh on your conscience if you have one left, Amerika.
The Biden regime doing something dumb, what a surprise.
Nothing the Biden regime does is dumb,everything it does is evil, big difference.
Is this Europe and Nato’s Gulf of Tonkin moment ? Sabotage the pipeline blame Russian claim they Invaded Denmark’s sovereignty.Escalation dead ahead.
If Putin gets assassinated the whore western media would write === “Putin dead! Assassinates himself.”
With 2 bullets to the back of the head.
Remember that Jake Sullivan’s mentor was Hillary Clinton – evil incarnate. It would be a damned shame if ol’ Jakey had one of those sudden, unexpected heart attacks that men in their 40’s keep dying of. What if someone were to Breitbart him? At least the skullduggery might be temporarily impeded.
The whore media would have no time to write anything, before they get nuked out of existence.
Things are really speeding up (or just speeding along). I have a plan of buying a farmhouse in the baltics and moving back from the uk.
It’s looking grim either way, and worse by the day.
I’m hoping to get set up and dug in in time to weather the shitstorm to come a bit better but may be too late.
Damn you, Brandon. And all the other parasites and unclean creatures that have caused all this shit
I saw lots of discussion of sabotage, but why is no one jumping on the fact that pipelines are extremely safe?
“…Nord Stream leaks can be a deliberate act, but it can also be something else, it’s just extremely rare that something like this happens.”