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What goes on in Polandon the 24th of October.

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 […]

USA is going to introduce new sanctions against Russia. They may limit financing of Russian banks and oil and gas companies, including Nord Stream 2. New limits will be valid from 28th of November. Accurate directives have been published on the American Treasury Department website.

What goes on in Poland on the 26th of September

-By introducing sanctions against companies that decided to engage in the Russian Nord Stream project, the USA sent a strong message, which says this endeavor is burdened with explicit political risk. At the same time the Americans have time and again proven that they will not shy away from executing their law even when it […]

The upcoming heating season is bringing back the problem of supplying Ukrainian power and CHP stations with anthracite. Last February the government in Kiev declared a state of energy emergency because, among others, Donbas’s black gold deliveries were blocked. The necessity to secure stable and regular coal deliveries for the energy and steel sectors forced […]

What goes on in Poland on the 11th of September.

As the U.S. under President Donald Trump leans towards protectionist economic policy, China sees an opportunity to become a driving force of globalisation. It presents itself as having the economic potential and political clout crucial to being its champion. However, China’s still relatively closed market, use of prohibited trade practices, stalled internal economic reforms, social […]

Emissions trading is a one-of-a-kind instrument in environmental policy. By putting a cap on the total amount of emissions and distributing the available emissions among the participating companies in the form of tradeable allowances, an emissions trading system (ETS) creates the only commodity market in the world where it pays to produce less.

The development of Russia’s only new LNG project, Yamal LNG, that is actually happening fueled speculations on the project being a possible threat to Poland’s LNG terminal. However, the Russian operator itself admitted that it was aiming at Asia because it is a fight worth having – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.