I've been trying to tell people for the last few months the infrastructure they've put in goes way past just his one pipeline. The reason energy prices are soaring in Europe is because the "private, confidential" investors in all this new infrastructure, backed by guarantees from development bank monies, meaning if it all fails they get their money back, those investors, now that the transition is actually happening, are looking for a return on their investments. So not only are the people paying for the natural gas coming into the new pipelines they are paying back the investors billions of dollars spent over the last few years putting in these pipelines. Which means the taxpayers are getting a double whammy because it was taxpayers monies that went into backing these investors, that money is just sitting there as a just in case back up if the investors should fail to make this transition successful. This, after having spent years trying, was the only way they could get investors to invest into such a risky project that would cost billions to implement. You want to see how extensive this project was and how many lines they put in, go to this post I did on it, second paragraph you'll see a link box that will take you and show you the number of new pipelines, the new Baltic line isn't the only one.
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