>The cargo -- 137,000 cubic meters -- will be delivered by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. to German utility RWE AG by early 2023. ADNOC also signed a memorandum of understanding to make more deliveries next year.
>After the UAE, Scholz traveled to Qatar, where he and the nation’s emir were expected to discuss long-term plans for shipments of gas and hydrogen. Germany and Qatar have been discussing LNG supplies for several months, with Germany being reluctant to commit to long-term contracts at record prices for LNG.
Hindsight is a lazy excuse. Securing your energy and making yourself depend by and on a more than questionable regime isn't just stupid. It's beyond that. You don't need a lot of brain cells to understand that that isn't a great idea.
Pretty rich coming from a world (especially US) that would be in an even worse energy crisis if the way more corrupt and murderous House of Saud decided to turn off the taps (again).
If only many countries including the US had insisted on diversifying gas supplies for a decade+ ...
Similarly, look at the state of the Bundeswehr. All it can muster in terms of SPHs delivered to Ukraine is about 20 PzH2000. Great equipment, but just 20 pieces is very little. Again, if only someone (many someones) pointed out the insufficient spending on military...
On top of all of that Scholz is now suggesting that Germany should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Like, lol. The SPD should really rebrand to Security Policy Disaster, though it's not just a single party problem.
The single tanker load is a detail German state media conveniently leaves out of their reporting. [0]
Germany also has gas reserves in shale. But fracking is unacceptable to the Green party. The environmental damages have to happen outside of their view.
> Politisch ist das Thema umstritten. Im ARD-Deutschlandtrend vom August zu den energiepolitischen Maßnahmen hielten die Förderung von sogenanntem Fracking-Gas in Deutschland nur 27 Prozent für richtig, 56 Prozent für falsch.
Deepl:
> Politically, the issue is controversial. In the August ARD Deutschlandtrend on energy policy measures, only 27 percent thought the promotion of so-called fracked gas in Germany was right, while 56 percent thought it was wrong.
It probably takes years to get these resources online anyway.
However, Germany also has unused nuclear powerplants that are also kind of taboo, but public opinion is much more in favor of those.
> The environmental damages have to happen outside of their view
Exactly. Until the Ukraine war started, the Green party was perfectly happy with importing loads of gas from Russia.
Is gas mining done in such an environment friendly way in Russia? Well, it is not.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/russia-europe-gas-pipelin...
Didn't German Green Party greenlight (sorry) driving down nuclear energy in favor of coal? Political parties tend to minmax popular support over success of personal ideology, perhaps that's the case here as well.
[+] [-] kken|3 years ago|reply
>After the UAE, Scholz traveled to Qatar, where he and the nation’s emir were expected to discuss long-term plans for shipments of gas and hydrogen. Germany and Qatar have been discussing LNG supplies for several months, with Germany being reluctant to commit to long-term contracts at record prices for LNG.
Clickbait title.
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Similarly, look at the state of the Bundeswehr. All it can muster in terms of SPHs delivered to Ukraine is about 20 PzH2000. Great equipment, but just 20 pieces is very little. Again, if only someone (many someones) pointed out the insufficient spending on military...
On top of all of that Scholz is now suggesting that Germany should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Like, lol. The SPD should really rebrand to Security Policy Disaster, though it's not just a single party problem.
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Germany also has gas reserves in shale. But fracking is unacceptable to the Green party. The environmental damages have to happen outside of their view.
[0]: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/scholz-vae-fluessigg...
[+] [-] ls15|3 years ago|reply
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/fracking-verbot-london-...
> Politisch ist das Thema umstritten. Im ARD-Deutschlandtrend vom August zu den energiepolitischen Maßnahmen hielten die Förderung von sogenanntem Fracking-Gas in Deutschland nur 27 Prozent für richtig, 56 Prozent für falsch.
Deepl: > Politically, the issue is controversial. In the August ARD Deutschlandtrend on energy policy measures, only 27 percent thought the promotion of so-called fracked gas in Germany was right, while 56 percent thought it was wrong.
It probably takes years to get these resources online anyway.
However, Germany also has unused nuclear powerplants that are also kind of taboo, but public opinion is much more in favor of those.
Something has to give.
[+] [-] misja111|3 years ago|reply
Exactly. Until the Ukraine war started, the Green party was perfectly happy with importing loads of gas from Russia. Is gas mining done in such an environment friendly way in Russia? Well, it is not. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/russia-europe-gas-pipelin...
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