WARSAW, Poland — Danish Prime Minister Metter Frederiksen states her federalgovernment views the gas leakages off a Danish island in the Baltic Sea as “deliberate actions.”
Asked whether it was an attack on Denmark, Frederiksen responded Tuesday that the leakages tookplace in global waters and “the response is therefore no.”
Explosions rattled the Baltic Sea priorto the uncommon leakages were found on 2 natural gas pipelines running undersea from Russia to Germany. Some European leaders and specialists are pointing to possible sabotage throughout an energy standoff with Russia provoked by the war in Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Danish defense minister Morten Bodskov will travel to Brussels to fulfill with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to talk about the gas leakages.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Explosions rattled the Baltic Sea priorto uncommon leakages were found on 2 natural gas pipelines running undersea from Russia to Germany, seismologists stated Tuesday. Some European leaders and professionals are pointing to possible sabotage throughout an energy standoff with Russia provoked by the war in Ukraine.
The 3 leakages on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which are filled with natural gas however not providing the fuel to Europe, eclipsed the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland to strengthen the continent’s energy self-reliance from Moscow.
The veryfirst surge was tape-recorded early Monday southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm, stated Bjorn Lund, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network. A 2nd, morepowerful blast northeast of the island that night was comparable to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake. Seismic stations in Norway and Finland likewise signedup the surges.
“There’s no doubt this is not an earthquake,” Lund stated.
The gas leakages developed a foamy white location on the water’s surfacearea, images launched by Denmark’s military program.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the occasions “an act of sabotage,” while Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated she might not guideline it out. During a event near Goleniow, in northwestern Poland, they and Polish President Andrzej Duda symbolically opened the valve of a yellow pipeline belonging to the Baltic Pipe, a brand-new system sendingout Norwegian gas throughout Denmark and the Baltic Sea to Poland.
“The period of Russian dominance in the gas sphere is coming to an end,” Morawiecki stated. “An period that was marked by blackmail, risks and extortion.”
The left natural gas is made up practically completely of methane. Methane is the 2nd mostsignificant factor to environment modification after carbon dioxide. David Hastings, a retired chemical oceanographer in Gainesville, Florida, stated much of the gas would increase through the ocean and gointo the environment. “There is no concern that the biggest enviro