Nord Stream 2.

It is still unclear when gas will start flowing via the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The crisis on the Polish border should be another argument against giving Russia new leverage in the form of a gas pipeline, but the energy crisis may lead to a deal. In the meantime, however, we should tighten our […]

The 2-week COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference will start on October 31 in Glasgow. Though methane emission reduction is not in the limelight for this session, it will be a topic for hallway conversations. In particular, taking into account that the EU strategy to reduce methane emissions was adopted one year ago in the […]

Nord Stream 2 pipeline, though completed is nowhere near delivering gas to the EU and involved in several legal battles in EU and German Courts that can affect the bankability of the project. The latter is acknowledged by the project promotors themselves – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl editor in chief.

Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz has filed a request with German regulator BundesNetzAgentur (BNetzA) for leave to participate in the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Naftogaz Executive Board Chairman Yuriy Vitrenko announced on 17 October in Kyiv.

The Russian ambassador to Poland argues that Gazprom did not use gas as a weapon. That’s not true. The company is capitalizing on the energy crisis, and wants to use it to force an early launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The answer to this is a common European policy, for example with […]

It’s time for a second antitrust investigation against Russia’s Gazprom. Poland is opening another front in the battle against the dominance of this supplier and its Nord Stream 2 project. This is because the first investigation did not result in Russians changing their behavior, as they now use the gas price crisis to manipulate the […]

Russians are shamelessly blackmailing Europe with high gas prices in order to launch Nord Stream 2 as soon as possible. Members of the European Parliament are concerned the investment will be launched illegally. However, with the support of the European Commission, the opponents of this project still stand a chance at turning it into a […]

While Poland, Ukraine and other states in Central and Eastern Europe are warning that Russia is already using Nord Stream 2 as a weapon, the Kremlin is spinning a misleading vision of Gazprom and Rosneft competing to try to convince the West that the contentious pipeline can work in accordance with the requirements of the […]

„Although this US administration has consistently opposed this project, it was already known that it will be completed, whether we liked it or not. That is why we decided to reach an agreement with Germany and abstained from applying new sanctions, and in return the Germans assured us that they would mitigate the risks associated […]

The growing demand for gas will force Poles to reach for additional gas from Germany. While it will be difficult to single out the molecules from Nord Stream 2, no contract with a subsidiary of Gazprom should be signed – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief BiznesAlert.pl.