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| Baltics Declare Energy Independence From Russia |
| 2025-02-09 |
| [Townhall] The Baltics were the first nations to break away from the Soviet Union. 35 years later, they’re finally declaring their energy independence from Russia. This Sunday, February 9th, all three will officially synchronize with the European Union’s electric grid after being tethered to the joint BRELL grid with Belarus and Russia. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania weaned themselves off of Russian oil and gas. The three Baltic Republics, good NATO dues-paying members, cite energy security as a top reason for decoupling. The Baltics fully untethering themselves from Russia’s energy infrastructure is a good first step to achieving energy independence. It puts other EU countries depending on Russian natural gas on notice. But the European Commission says integrating the Baltic States into the Continental European Network (CEN) will "facilitate the uptake of renewable energy, supporting them [to] achieve the European Green Deal objectives." In 2023, POLITICO Europe bizarrely argued Russian dictator Vladimir Putin — a top recipient of their Green 28 Class of 2023 — is "the invader making the EU green." "It took a war criminal to speed up Europe’s green revolution," the publication boasted. "By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European support for Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security." Much to the EU’s chagrin, energy independence and net-zero are incompatible.The EU Green Deal calls for carbon neutrality by 2050—a goal that mirrored the Biden-Harris administration’s radical climate policies. At best, net-zero policies only reduce global temperatures by 0.2 degrees Celsius—not 1.5C—but will lead to total economic destruction. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #2 The Russian Mission to EU expects the move to send energy prices in the bloc soaring |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-02-09 11:36 |
| #1 This was a better article yesterday, which I stumbled upon after posting the Townhall article. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2025-02-09 08:41 |