A gas leak from the Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea is causing a danger to ship traffic, marine authorities have warned.
A ship in the Baltic Sea working on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in 2018 (Photo: Bernd Wuestneck/DPA via AP)
Ships have been warned to steer clear of a five nautical mile radius off the Danish island of Bornholm after a leak was detected on Monday evening. The cause was not immediately clear.
The German government said it was in contact with Danish authorities to find out what caused pressure in the pipeline to plummet suddenly.
Meanwhile, the operator of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which ran at reduced capacity since mid-June before stopping altogether in August, also disclosed a pressure drop.
“Tonight, the dispatchers of the Nord Stream 1 control center registered a pressure drop on both strings of the gas pipeline. The reasons are being investigated,” Nord Stream AG said in a statement on its website on Monday. It did not give further information.
German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the pipelines may have been damaged by targeted attacks, citing an unnamed person familiar with the German government’s assessment.
“We can’t imagine a scenario that isn’t a targeted attack,” the source said. “Everything speaks against a coincidence.”
The newspaper reported that “forensic results” cannot be expected within a short time since the seabed has to be reached.
Nord Stream 2, which runs 764 miles from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany, was completed and filled with 300 million cubic metres of gas before the project was halted days before the invasion of Ukraine.
It has been one of the flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Russia that has pummelled major Western economies and sent gas prices soaring.
Klaus Mueller, president of the German network regulator Bundesnetzagentur, said on Twitter that the pressure drop in both pipelines “underscores the Bundesnetzagentur’s assessment that the situation is tense”.
The regulator said it was currently not known what had caused the pressure drop, adding that it had no impact on security of supply in Germany and that the country’s gas storage levels stood at about 91 per cent capacity.
Danish maritime authorities have issued a navigation warning and established a prohibition zone around the Nord Stream 2 pipeline “as it is dangerous for ship traffic”.
Sweden’s maritime authority issued a similar warning on Tuesday, saying the leak from Nord Stream 1 was also in its territorial waters.
“We are keeping extra watch to make sure no ship comes too close to the site,” a spokesperson said.
While the pressure inside the pipeline is normally 105 bar, it is now only seven bar on the German side, said Nord Stream 2 spokesman Ulrich Lissek.
The leak comes a day before the inauguration of a new pipeline, the Baltic Pipe, which will bring Norwegian gas through Denmark to Poland.
The project is a centrepiece of Warsaw’s efforts to diversify from Russian gas. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is due to travel to Poland on Tuesday to mark the occasion.
For updates go to: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ships-warned-of-danger-after-gas-from-russia-e2-80-99s-nord-stream-2-pipeline-leaks-into-baltic-sea-near-denmark/ar-AA12hV1D
Gatekeeper Gonzalo Lira has already ‘decided’, from his flat in Kharkiv, who is guilty of this supposed sabotage! As usual he is misleading his audience, nudging them towards fear.
He is so obviously an agent of the Black Nobility that it is painful to see how many people buy into his narratives. He claims that UK has no reason to sabotage Nordstream because it receives some gas from Russia. Less than 4% of our gas comes from Russia. The crippling of European energy sources would mean that Europe comes to BRITAIN & NORWAY for gas supplies and what does the British government want to force upon its citizens?
FRACKING.
Who has stealth subs very nearby?
THE BRITS.
Trident is so close by.... I am sick of people ignoring the threat from UK. The City of London Crown Corporation UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE BLACK NOBILITY TELLS the United States what to do and when it comes to a job like this, they make sure that it is done right..... by doing it themselves.
Didn’t we see THIS coming?
🤦
Gonzalo Lira is a Black Nobility lesser known bit part player. He is descended from two Black Nob families - Hess and Carrera - Chilean Copper mine oligarchs. He is Jesuit educated at top expensive US Universities. He is in Ukraine for a REASON and that is for credibility and to lead us into a false narrative.
His Wikipedia page miraculously disappeared after I quoted from it in comments on this post made some weeks ago.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/gonzalo-lira-is-having-a-laugh
I knew that the Wikipedia page would vanish so I copied it as follows:
Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López (born February 29, 1968) is a Chilean-American novelist,[4] film director,[5] financial blogger, YouTuber, and commentator in the manosphere known as Coach Red Pill. A resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine, he started vlogging about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from a pro-Russia perspective, which has been described as mirroring Russian propaganda.[6][7] In April 2022, Lira alleged that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations, and continued to vlog shortly thereafter.[8]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Russian invasion of Ukraine
4 Filmography
5 Publications
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Early life
Lira was born to Chilean parents in Burbank, California,[9] to Gonzalo Lia Valdés and María Isabel López Hess. Through his mother, he is a direct descendant of José Miguel Carrera.[10] He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and also Guayaquil, Ecuador. He graduated from Saint George's College, Santiago in 1985, and from Dartmouth College in 1995 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College], with a degree in history and philosophy.[11] He is married to a Ukrainian woman from Ordzhonikidze, with whom he had 1 daughter.[12]
Career
According to El Mercurio, in December 1996, Lira signed a book contract with G. P. Putnam's Sons to publish a commercial thriller entitled Counterparts. In 1997, he published a Spanish-language novel, Tomáh Errázurih. In 1998, he directed a short action film, So Kinky. He published a second English-language commercial thriller, Acrobat, in 2002. In 2005, he filmed Secuestro in Chile, which despite a large investment, was not successful nor received favourable reviews.[13] It came in second in the box office in Chile during its opening weekend.[14][inconsistent]
Between 2010 and 2013, Lira published his thoughts on economics and other subjects on his blog, sometimes reposting them on the blog Business Insider.[5][15] On four occasions, he reposted them on the blog Naked Capitalism.[16] He also contributed to Zero Hedge, a fringe financial website.[17][18] During this period, Lira contacted Australian economist Steve Keen, proposing him to work together on a project and start a content paid subscription site. According to Keen, Gonzalo "overstated and over-promised what he could do, then under-delivered", and that his demeanor led to the departure of collaborators and employees.[6]
From 2017, Lira was active on YouTube, under the pseudonym Coach Red Pill (CRP). This name is an allusion to Red Pill and Blue Pill symbolism in the Manosphere community. The content was misogynistic[7] and anti-feminist in nature, appealing to incels.[13][19] Lira posted videos with advice such as "never date a woman in her thirties" and argued that all women really only want money, a house, and kids, as child-rearing is the one thing that will biologically validate them.[6] In one video, he advised viewers living in Western democracies to move to "a poor, underdeveloped country" due to the former's "totalitarian" deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.[20] He published over 500 videos, gaining 324,000 subscribers and around 2 million views.[21] In November 2021, Lira deleted most of his CRP content and began posting under his legal name.[13] He lives in Kharkiv, and has family in Ukraine.[6]
Russian invasion of Ukraine
In mid-February 2022, Lira said that "no one over the age of 12 or with an IQ over 90 seriously believes that the Russians are going to invade [Ukraine] anytime soon".[18] After they did in fact invade just over a week later, he began to vlog about the invasion from what has been described by The Daily Beast as a pro-Russian or "pro-Putin" perspective,[6][22] for example denying the Bucha massacre and calling it a "hoax".[7][18] Segments from Lira's vlogs have been replayed on Channel One Russia.[6] Some of Lira's former associates have voiced skepticism that he is still in Kharkiv, from where he says he continues to vlog.[6]
In April 2022, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, and Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative Maria Zakharova said Lira was missing. Ritter alleged Lira had been murdered by Ukrainian agents on Russia-state-owned media, Russia Today (RT). However, Lira reappeared, unharmed, on 22 April, alleging that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations.[8][18]
Filmography
So Kinky (1998) — writer, director.
Secuestro (2005) aka Catalina's Kidnapping — co-writer, co-producer, director.
Publications
Lira, Gonzalo (1997). Tomáh Errázurih (1 ed.). Santiago de Chile: Mondadori. ISBN 956-258-057-1. OCLC 38081261.
Lira, Gonzalo (1998). Counterparts. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-14312-2. OCLC 37300650.[23]
Lira, Gonzalo (2002). Acrobat (1 ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-28694-5. OCLC 48515857.[24]
IMPORTANT >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Miguel_Carrera
Additional info: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gonzalo-lira-is-a-pro-putin-shill-in-ukraine-and-a-sleazy-manosphere-dating-coach
Sweden’s national seismic network has said it detected two explosions close to unusual leaks in two Russian natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea to to Germany.
The network said it registered one blast early on Monday south east of the Danish island of Bornholm, and a slightly larger one later that night north east of the island.
It said the latter explosion was equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/seismic-network-registers-two-explosions-near-russian-gas-pipeline-leaks-42021118.html