“Maybe they will turn it off at some point, and that’s it, and Nord Stream 1 will stop, because they came from there, from Canada,” Putin said.
in its war against Ukraine. Before its February invasion of Ukraine, Russia supplied about 40 percent of Europe’s natural gas. EU officials have asked member countries to reduce usage 15 percent and fear that Russia, which has already reduced flows, will cut the gas off entirely.
Enter the turbine controversy, which involves the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the North Sea through which Russia’s gas flows.news agency reported, citing state officials, that Canada granted Siemens Energy a two-year exemption from sanctions the country imposed over the war in Ukraine. The exemption was to allow Siemens to repair six Nord Stream 1 turbines at the company’s facility in Montreal and to return them to Russia, the Globe and Mail reported.. The United States stated its support of Canada’s decision in a same-day statement.
“[W]e support the Canadian government’s decision to return a natural gas turbine to Germany for use in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline,” U.S State Department spokesman“In the short term, the turbine will allow Germany and other European countries to replenish their gas reserves, increasing their energy security and resiliency and countering Russia’s efforts to weaponize energy.”as “absolutely unacceptable.
“Russia deliberately does this blackmailing with gas and provoking violations of sanctions,” he said in a July 17 video.
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