Wojciech Jakóbik

– This could be the biggest scam in the industry. The liquefied gas, which reaches Europe on American ships, is purchased in Russia – thunders Rzeczpospolita daily. However, it is not about liquefied gas nor about supplies from the USA – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Russia will sulfurate our oil, resulting in the increase of the costs for PKN Orlen and the Lotos Group. This is another argument for diversification. We have an ally in the yard who can also help and attack the Russians in the back of their traditional market – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

“Sieci” weekly reported that corruption could occur during the promotion of the power bridge from the Kaliningrad Oblast to Poland. This harmful project has not been created, but other are emerging on the horizon. Warsaw must avoid mistakes of the past – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Russians are threatening that a dispute with Norway over the Svalbard archipelago could end up in a war involving all NATO countries. The helicopter crash has become another pretext for discussion on this subject – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

The Polish-Ukrainian Gas Forum which I had the pleasure to moderate was a feast for natural gas sector analysts. Poland and Ukraine want to cooperate, but both countries want to be exporters, not importers of gas. Their plans may converge as part of the regional gas hub unless they do not lose to vested interests […]

Poland still needs an active eastern policy because the problems in Ukraine may hamper Kiev’s energy integration and deprive Poles of lucrative gas cooperation – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

Whatever the decision on Poland’s nuclear energy plant will be, everything should be done to make sure that the debate on this topic is based on facts and is impacted by as little disinformation as possible. This was one of the issues raised by scientists who gathered at a conference in Kraków – writes Wojciech […]

I have previously published Polish government’s documents, that concluded that controversial pipelines from Russia to Germany should be a subject to EU legislation. This may reduce its harmfulness for Central and Eastern Europe markets or even – in case of Nord Stream 2 – block the construction. Poles’ new opinion confirms it – writes Wojciech […]

After the failure to subject the controversial Nord Stream 2 project to the Third Energy Package and to acquire the mandate to negotiate a legal regime with Russia, the European Commission wants to update the offshore pipelines regulations to finally apply the EU law to the project – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

Poland does not want to pay for the expansion of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It has different strategic goals and is afraid of instability. The project is a hotbed of shady deals. BiznesAlert.pl has reported about a number of incidents surrounding the enterprise. For these reasons the construction of new units at the […]