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Merkel moves to open up Germany to US gas imports after Trump's push: report


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making a move to open up Germany's market to U.S. gas companies, following a lobbying push from President Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 

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Merkel told a group of lawmakers over breakfast in October that her government will co-finance a $576 million liquified natural gas (LNG) shipping terminal in northern Germany, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the meeting.

 

The project had been stalled for years, but Trump has lobbied hard for Europe to increase LNG purchases from the U.S. while reducing their reliance on Russia.

 

Germany gets most of its gas from Russia, and American efforts to open its market to U.S. companies has stalled due to lack of government support.

 

Merkel told lawmakers that the decision to co-finance the LNG terminal was "strategic" and could pay off in the long term, people familiar with the meeting told the Journal.

 

A German government spokesman told the Journal that the move was made because of Germany's economic interests, not U.S. pressure.

 

Less than a week after the reported Merkel meeting with lawmakers, an international consortium filed its first official bid for government financing for a terminal in a town near Hamburg.

 

Merkel said in her conversation with lawmakers that the government support for the terminal will likely have to continue for the long term and that the terminal will likely not break even for at least 10 years.

 

“We’re creating jobs and we’re also deepening the trans-Atlantic relationship," Richard Grenell, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, told the Journal. "The U.S. is totally committed to bringing U.S. LNG to Europe and to Germany."

 

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usa want more money then russia wants from people  i am sorry to say but  this time usa cant win 

LNG no good as its 2times as much as from geting from russia  pay more y not crazy people

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14 minutes ago, knowledge said:

usa want more money then russia wants from people  i am sorry to say but  this time usa cant win 

LNG no good as its 2times as much as from geting from russia  pay more y not crazy people

No its not its about 20% higher than Russian gas , and if it were only about money they never would  agreed to do  it. its not about the price even.

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8 minutes ago, steven36 said:

No its not its about 20% higher than Russian gas , and if it were only about money they never would  agreed to do  it. its not about the price even.

its a money thing with usa not russia  thats for sure  trust me LNG  is no match

lets see if germany   stop useing from russia then  thats not going to happen

 

plus just weeks ago 

 

 

3days ago

 

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8 minutes ago, knowledge said:

its a money thing with usa not russia  thats for sure  trust me LNG  is no match

lets see if germany   stop useing from russia then  thats not going to happen

Its not to get them to stop using it from Russia unless Germany and Russia has some sort of conflict..  it will be 10 years down the road before it starts up,  its about  diversity , Before long the Dutch is going to stop making  it so this will take up the slack, and this is were Germany buys some there Gas from, its good to have more than one place to put dependence on, in case something happens .

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days ago usa   threatens   russia with Navy

The Washington Examiner reported that US Internal Secretary Ryan Zinke said that the United States could use its Navy to prevent Russia’s potential energy supplies to the Middle East.

 

y usa do that for ? no like

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Zinke’s energy export plan knocked as 'harebrained'

 

 

He cast the idea of using the sites like a former Navy base as a national security matter to ensure the U.S. can supply allies with cheap energy.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke drew immediate flak Monday for proposing to use military bases on the West Coast to export coal and natural gas despite the opposition of environmentally minded state governments — with critics saying it just won’t work.

 

“It’s really impressive how this administration churns out harebrained schemes for their Department of Cock-Eyed Ideas,” Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state, a Democrat, told POLITICO. “The president must be getting really bad advice. It’s not going to work. Our clean water and clean air laws are still on the books and will still be enforced.“

 

 

In an interview with The Associated Press, Zinke cast the idea of using the sites like a former Navy base on a remote Alaskan island as a national security matter because it would ensure that the U.S. can supply allies with cheap energy. And it would circumvent opposition to new fossil fuel exports in Democratic-dominated states like Washington and California.

 

“It doesn’t sound logical or fully baked,” Tom Hicks, a former undersecretary of the Navy and now a principal at Mabus Group, an energy consulting firm, said on Zinke’s plan. “It sounds a little half-cocked.”

 

The bureaucratic and economic hurdles in building the infrastructure needed to turn military bases into export facilities would be difficult to overcome, experts said, and any development would still need the approval of state-level environmental regulators who have stymied other projects.

 

Inslee said the federal government had not reached out to his office about the idea, and he couldn’t think of any bases, active or shuttered, in Washington state that would be likely candidates. And he blasted Zinke and the Trump administration for pursuing coal exports despite warnings from the Department of Defense that climate change is a growing national security threat.

 

Zinke has complained that coastal states are harming their neighboring states by blocking fossil fuel export projects, such as the Millennium Bulk Terminals’ proposed export facility in Washington that would ship coal from Wyoming to Asia. And Zinke, along with Energy Secretary Rick Perry and chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, has increasingly criticized state environmental regulators for blocking oil and gas pipelines and local governments on the West Coast for nixing new liquefied natural gas export facilities.

 

“It’s in our interest for national security and our allies to make sure that they have access to affordable energy commodities.” Zinke said in the interview. He suggested the former Adak Naval Air Facility in Alaska could be used as an LNG export point that could receive Alaskan-produced gas by barge.

 

 

But Adak’s location on a remote island located near the western tip of the Aleutian Islands is in a region battered by storms, and natural gas must be turned into either LNG or compressed natural gas before it can be moved by ship.

 

“It sounds like a bit of a stretch,” Sarah Emerson, managing principal at oil and gas consulting firm ESAI Energy, said of the Adak idea. “The Adak base is on an Aleutian island, so you would also need an undersea [pipeline] connection. I think this would be a hard sell for the oil and gas industry.“

 

The list of military bases with access to deep water ports that sit far from population centers in case of accidents is a short one, according to Hicks. Even if one could be found, the economics of exporting coal “would flame them in the face,” he added. Foreign demand for U.S. coal is expected to wane in coming years, according to government forecasts.

Even Zinke’s proposal of using closed bases likely wouldn’t fly, Hicks said.

 

“Just because it was once a military base that’s closed, it doesn’t mean Department of Defense has anything to do with it. I don’t even know what the role of Interior would be at that point. Usually the land is turned over to the state,” he said.

 

An Interior spokesperson did not respond to a series of questions on how far along Zinke’s plan is, whether he had consulted with states, and whether the government had interest from the private sector for the plan. A spokesperson for the Commerce Department — which Zinke told the AP was involved in his proposal — referred questions to Interior.

Spokespeople for California Gov. Jerry Brown did not return calls for comment. A spokesman for Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, who has been promoting an Alaska LNG project, did not immediately respond to questions.

 

Still, the administration may feel the need to do something to counteract the way its own trade policy has antagonized China, one of the largest potential customers for U.S. gas and coal, said Leslie Palti-Guzman, president of natural gas consulting firm Gas Vista.

 

“The timing of this announcement is interesting,” Palti-Guzman said. “It happens in a context of escalating trade war with China, which could negatively impact the US push for ‘energy dominance.’ Hence, the U.S. government is on the defensive, doubling down on its interagency commitment to removing barriers to energy developments and trade and to promoting exports of U.S. energy resources.”

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/15/zinke-energy-export-plan-848856

 

The dude is crazy they say sounds like propaganda that will never happen to me

19 minutes ago, knowledge said:

The Washington Examiner reported that US Internal Secretary Ryan Zinke said that the United States could use its Navy to prevent Russia’s potential energy supplies to the Middle East. 

The Washington Examiner is a GOP newspaper they the only American newspaper to post this rubbish, :tooth:

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11 minutes ago, knowledge said:

 

That video is just repeating what Ryan Zinke said to the The Washington Examiner and he did not say they would he said they could  and they didn't really want too but it was and option. they is a lot of things they could do but they want .  Always starting World War 3 has been and option for and super power every since World War 2 ended but its never happened even with the all the years of the Cold War. Sounds like U.S, propaganda to me don't worry about it unless they start shooting at each other then it will be a war. :rofl:

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3 minutes ago, steven36 said:

That video is just repeating what Ryan Zinke said to the The Washington Examiner and he did not say they would he said they could  and they didn't really want too but it was and option. they is a lot of things they could do but they want .  Always starting World War 3 has been and option for and super power every since World War 2 ended but its never happened even with the all the years of the Cold War. Sounds like U.S, propaganda to me don't worry about it unless they start shooting at each other then it will be a war. :rofl:

did u see a lady from usa saying she want to shot at russia

Pre-emptive hit: US NATO envoy threatens striking Russian missiles

this is somedays ago  its seem usa is make all  threatens    and want war with russia ?

1st her

and then Ryan Zinke threatens all threatens

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