Gas is leaking from the north stream two pipeline the north stream one which has been operational and critical to europe's energy security for quite some time now and also the north stream too which has been defunded all this while gas leaks have been discovered in both of them but the north stream two was Russia's dream project it would make Europe more dependent on Russian natural gas than it already was but the war in Ukraine led to Germany suspending the project just before it was about to begin operations seven months later not stream two is now leaking and nobody knows why The thing is such a leak is potentially dangerous which is why Denmark has told ships to stay away from A5 nautical mile radius of the island of Borneo they're not stream to pipeline was meant to double the volume of gas flowing from Saint Petersburg under the Baltic Sea to Germany before Germany suspended the project the pipeline was filled with 300 million cubic metres of gas not stream spokesman Eric lissik said the pipeline was never in use just prepared for technical operation and therefore filled with gas in a notice to ships denmark's maritime traffic agency on Monday said that the gas leak it is dangerous for maritime traffic you see the overnight pressure in the pipeline dropped dramatically from 105 to 7 bars all of a sudden this caused a large bubble field near bono according to the North Korean spokesperson it is possible that there might have been more such large bubbles which went unnoticed by the authorities neither Denmark nor Germany have been able to figure out what went wrong with the pipeline but we have a fair idea of what happened in order to keep the structure of the pipeline intact underwater all stakeholders Russia has invested a lot in the north stream two project the total investment on the north stream two pipeline project is estimated to be $11 billion half of that investment was made by Russia alone and the remaining by its European partners and it was not like the project hit a roadblock during construction the pipeline was completed and ready to begin operations when Germany pulled the plug on the whole thing that angered Moscow in fact Russia had even filled the pipeline with gas to make sure its structure remains safe the pipeline was expected to serve approximately 26 million households in Western Europe here are the European entities that have invested in the gigantic pipeline Angie OMV Royal Dutch Shell uniper and wintershall uniper which invested over $1 billion in the pipeline has now been nationalized by Germany to save it from bankruptcy in fact the investments of all these European firms have turned out to be a grand waste the leak if orchestrated by Russia is most likely a strategic tactic aimed at forcing stakeholders including the German government to return to the table so is Russia trying to remind Europe that it can weaponize the north stream too even when it is not functioning as it turns out the north stream two is not the only pipeline experiencing leaks in fact the north stream one through which Russia has indefinitely suspended operations is also leaking according to authorities in Denmark there have been two leaks on north stream one and one leak on north stream two meanwhile Sweden has claimed that the stream one is leaking in both Swedish and Danish waters Danish authorities have asked that the level of preparedness for the country's power and parties have asked that the level of preparedness for the country's power and gas sector be raised after reports of the leaks became public but here's the interesting part this seems orchestrated all the leaks multiple leaks being discovered at the same time across two different pipelines none of it looks natural so who is behind it while Russia may be trying to send a message to Europe Washington too has an incentive to tinker with the pipelines if Russia invades that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine again then there will be there will be no longer N stream tube we will bring it into the USA has much to gain if energy lines between Russia and Europe were to be structurally damaged either way it is europe's loss.
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