Cette idée de diminuer la dépendance du gaz russe en le remplaçant par du gaz US est aussi partagé par le ministre de l’énergie lituanien. Une telle ignorance et incompétence à ce niveau laisse perplexe.

Comme l’explique fort bien cet expert, un tel projet est irréaliste car il nécessite un gigantesque investissement en terme d’infrastructures - investissement douteux en cette période de récession et économiquement illogique, sans compter de l’impact catastrophique pour l’environnement.

« The idea that Western Europe could rapidly alter its existing energy infrastructure to reduce its dependency on Russian gas supplies and replace its requirements on LNG supplies from the US is complete nonsense. 
It would take years to effect such a change and to construct the necessary infrastructure (handling LNG is a much more complicated process than receiving conventional gas by pipeline). For one thing there simply are not enough vessels capable of shipping such quantities of LNG - these would have to be ordered and constructed - a process which would take a minimum of 3 - 5 years - and we have not even begun to consider the construction of new LNG terminals and/or expansion of existing LNG terminals. 
Such an enterprise would also involve a considerable financial investment which would be difficult to raise given the fact that if Russian gas supplies were disrupted for any considerable period of time - Western Europe’s already fragile economy - would immediately be thrown into a severe recession. 
In fact the West is far more vulnerable to economic »sanctions« than Russia. All Russia has to do to bring about a massive recession in the West is to reduce gas and oil exports - and then flood the market once substitution starts to take place - to make such enterprises uneconomic. »

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