- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 14•1 year ago
I can’t not support the attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure. It’s a shame that a communications cable was also affected
- idiomaddict ( @idiomaddict@feddit.de ) 10•1 year ago
If they keep trying this, we’ll get another oil spill
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 6•1 year ago
That made mw think, what is worst for the environment, an oil spill, that is pretty localized, or the use of the same amount of spilled oil in production of energy and others, that affects the entire planet?
- CleoTheWizard ( @CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Well, an oil spill is still probably worse. Depends on volume of spilled oil. Also depends on if that oil is replaced by using renewables.
The typical spill playbook is to slowly clean this up while also creating emissions elsewhere and also disrupting the environment more to repair the pipeline or whatever alternative they have.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Finnish president has said damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to be deliberate.
Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the transatlantic military alliance was “ready to share information about the destruction of Finnish and Estonian underwater infrastructure” and to “support its allies”.
The Finnish government said in a statement that authorities had discovered the damage to the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline, and to a communication cable linking Finland and Estonia, at about 2am local time (0000 BST) on Sunday morning.
It cited unnamed intelligence sources as saying the government “considered it possible that Russia had aimed a sabotage attack” amid sightings of Russian vessels in the vicinity of windfarms and underwater power cables in the Baltic Sea.
Konrad Muzyka, an independent regional defence analyst, said on X that the Russian hydrographic survey vessel Sibiryakov had been detected in the Gulf of Finland near the pipeline and the Estlinks cable in May, August and September.
Finland and Estonia are EU and Nato members that border Russia and stopped importing Russian oil and gas as part of sanctions imposed against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
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- zerfuffle ( @zerfuffle@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
I too enjoy waking up to another false flag operation. It’s literally the exact same story used for Nordstream, which is incredibly lazy as far as false flag operations go.
- wandermind ( @wandermind@sopuli.xyz ) 5•1 year ago
I agree that Russia is really lazy with these false flag operations, where they destroy a pipeline and then try to blame all other countries.
- TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Putins greatest soldier