The Daily Nationalist: Europe’s Energy Crisis – DN 081822

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/dn%20081822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1371" src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/dn%20081822.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks" target="_blank"><strong>Sven Longshanks</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.rusjournal.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson</strong></a> discuss the real reasons for the energy shortage in Europe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Ukraine conflict was seen as a good excuse to accelerate the green agenda and deprive Russia of gas profits, but this has backfired.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Green energy is not yet advanced enough and energy prices have gone through the roof, causing the populations of Europe to get restless, something Germany and France are keen to prevent <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/560649-putin-west-officials-extremism/" target="_blank"><strong>populists</strong></a> from utilising.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The source of the problem is <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/559871-gazprom-nord-stream-siemens-gas/" target="_blank"><strong>sanctions</strong></a> preventing companies contracted for maintenance work on Russian pipelines fulfilling their obligations, leading to shortage of supply and increase in price.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/business/560314-putin-eu-russian-gas-turkey/" target="_blank"><strong>Turkey</strong></a> has been acting as middleman for some countries, but Germany’s Nordstream 1 is only operating at 20% capacity because of this problem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Russia is not deliberately putting the price up, the west is. </span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></em></p><p><em><span style="