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| Egypt-Israel gas pipeline blown up | |
| 2011-02-05 | |
| A pipeline that runs through northern Sinai which supplies gas to Israel was blown up, state television reported, although it is not yet clear what impact the blast had on gas flows. "Saboteurs took advantage of the security situation and blew up the gas pipeline," a state television correspondent said, reporting a big explosion. He blamed the blast on "terrorists".
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #15 Jpost.com had a lot to say: El-Arish blast causes shut off of natural gas flow to Israel and Jordan; Egyptian security officials say explosives were detonated at terminal. Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau said in a statement Saturday that Israel is prepared for unexpected disruptions in the supply of natural gas from Egypt, and that a drill was held last June in which exactly such a scenario was simulated. The terminal is part of a pipeline system that transports gas from Egypt's Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea to Israel, Syria and Jordan. Today, roughly half of the fuel Israel uses to generate power comes from natural gas, drawn in equal parts from Israeli sources and Egypt, which starting pumping to Israel in 2008 under a 15-year contract. Any guesses on how long that contract will be honored if Egypt goes for Jihad? "The deal (to sell gas) was a blow to the pride of Egyptians and a betrayal," former diplomat Ibrahim Yousri told The Associated Press on Saturday. Yousri led a high court challenge to try to halt Egypt's sale of gas to Israel. Although the high court ruled in his favor in February 2010, the ruling was widely ignored by the government. Uh-oh, didn't know that the contract has already been labeled illegal. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-05 16:47 |
| #14 WWMD? JIHAD! First, last & always! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-05 16:39 |
| #13 Is there an arab word for "opportunity"? WWMD? |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-02-05 15:27 |
| #12 Moses and Co did not know about the petroleum age, being agriculture and herd folks and all. But if the Israelis get a serious natural gas field going, they also can produce urea from the CO2 from NH3 and the combustion of natural gas, and you have a home grown fertilizer industry. Every disaster is a new opportunity, like my friend said after the Alaska earthquake of 1964. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-02-05 15:01 |
| #11 Don't forget the 40 years that Moses and the gang spent wandering around in the desert until they finally found someplace without oil. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-02-05 13:58 |
| #10 Evil Crusader infidels found it Exactly, SteveS. ;-) But the Juices were deprived of that advantage by British intransigence and U.N. connivance, which is why it took them so long to discover it on their own. /Under the circumstances, does this count as Jewish humour? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-05 13:41 |
| #9 how did the "Saudis" find all their oil? Evil Crusader infidels found it and built the infrastructure to get it out of the ground. Without them, the Bedouins would still be trying to wipe it off their camel's feet. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-02-05 13:16 |
| #8 But TW, how did the "Saudis" find all their oil? |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-02-05 11:16 |
| #7 I would think that the harvesting of the natural gas off Israel's coast would to them have about the same priority as the Manhattan project had to us. It's a high priority, Anonymoose. But Israel had been attacking this weakness on multiple fronts: solar power, battery power, electric vehicles, improved energy efficiency... The fact is that they had to have been looking for natural gas sources in order to find them. It's not that the sea god Neptune one day stuck a hand out of the Mediterranean holding a sign that said, "Find gas here." ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-05 10:54 |
| #6 Jawa, via WSJ, says the pipeline mainly supplies Jordan, which would be consistent with hasty claims of "just a gas leak." So, maybe file this one under muzz-on-muzz premature-jihad bloopers. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-02-05 10:37 |
| #5 From the JPost, The head of Egypt's natural gas company on Saturday said a fire at a gas terminal in the northern Sinai Peninsula was caused by a gas leak. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2011-02-05 10:06 |
| #4 I would think that the harvesting of the natural gas off Israel's coast would to them have about the same priority as the Manhattan project had to us. They should be throwing money and resources at it, so that they can get their own strategic energy supply. It will also shift their economy into overdrive. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-05 09:59 |
| #3 Another front (and now a new one at that) in Islam's war against the West by Islam. Obama is the one who must go. |
| Posted by: Solomon Slavirt9184 2011-02-05 09:32 |
| #2 Would be a good way to ramp up some more civil unrest in Gaza........... |
| Posted by: clockwork26+6=1 2011-02-05 09:18 |
| #1 Would that be the pipeline that supplies gas to Gaza and to the generators that supply electricity to Gaza? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-02-05 08:07 |