European leaders blame sabotage as gas pours into Baltic from Nord Stream pipelines
Aerial footage of leak in Danish waters from Nord Stream 1 pipeline – video
Sabotage is the most likely cause of leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, European leaders have said, after seismologists reported explosions around the Nord Stream pipelines.
A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm, near where the leaks occurred, twice recorded spikes on Monday, the day on which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines underwent dramatic falls in pressure, the German geological research centre GFZ said.
A Danish military flight over the leaks brought back striking images from the ruptures, including one showing an area of bubbling gas a kilometre wide on the sea’s surface.
Explosions reportedly damage Nord Stream pipelines causing gas leaks in the Baltic Sea
GFZ declined to be drawn on whether the tremors recorded could have been the result of an explosion but scientists at the research centre ruled out the possibility that the leaks could have been caused by earthquakes.
A seismologist quoted by Swedish television suggested the activity may have been the result of explosions. Björn Lund, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network, SNSN, which measures Swedish earthquakes and explosions, told the SVT television channel that the event – one of which registered a magnitude of 2.3 – may have been caused by undersea detonations.
“Breakage of gas pipelines is extremely rare”, Danish authorities said in a statement. The steel pipe itself has a wall of 4.1 cm (1.6 inches) and is coated with steel-reinforced concrete up to 11cm thick. Each section of the pipe weighs 11 tonnes, which goes to 24-25 tonnes after the concrete is applied.
One UK insider speculated that any explosions were unlikely to have been caused by a submarine or underwater vehicle, because their presence would have been detected in the relatively shallow Baltic waters. Sections of the pipelines are between 80 metres and 110 metres deep.
An alternative scenario could be that mines were dropped from a disguised commercial vessel days or weeks ahead of the attack, then remotely detonated to cause the explosions. But the latter scenario was entirely hypothetical, they stressed.
The day of drama began when the Danish energy agency said it had found the leaks on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline north-east of the island of Bornholm, and a third in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Swedish waters south-east of the island. “This is not a small crack. It’s a really big hole,” the energy agency said.
A five-mile exclusion zone for shipping has been set up around Bornholm, and flights below 1,000 metres have been banned in the area. Methane, the primary component of natural gas, partially dissolves in water, is not toxic and creates no hazard when inhaled in limited quantities.
Nord Stream AG, the pipeline operator, had on Monday morning reported an unexpected overnight drop of pressure from 105 to 7 bar in Nord Stream 2, which is filled with gas but was cancelled by Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, shortly before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A further drop of pressure was reported on Monday afternoon in Nord Stream 1, which Russia shut down indefinitely at the start of September, initially saying it needed repairs.
With three separate leaks almost simultaneously, with some distance between them, it was “difficult to imagine” it was a random accident, Frederiksen said at a short press conference during a visit to Poland, where she was participating in the opening of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline.
The news magazine Der Spiegel, quoting government sources, said officials were not ruling out sabotage, designed to cause further uncertainty on Europe’s energy markets.
Since no gas has flowed through either of the pipelines since the start of the month, German authorities have been quick to reassure people that the leaks will not affect its plan to fill gas storage tanks in time for winter.
Environmental NGOs said the leaks were likely to cause large-scale damage to the environment. “As soon as methane in gas form raises from the surface of the sea into the atmosphere, it will massively contribute to the greenhouse effect,” said Sascha Müller-Kraenner of the pressure group Environmental Action Germany.
NATO said that a series of leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe were the result of sabotage and that attacks on its members’ infrastructure would be met with a collective response from the military alliance.
The statement, from the North Atlantic Council, the decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, didn’t provide details or evidence. It also noted that the damage to the pipelines occurred in international waters. But it marks the first time the alliance has formally warned that it would deter and defend against attacks on its members’ critical infrastructure following the now four documented leaks in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg separately wrote on Twitter that the sabotage on the pipelines was of “deep concern.”
European leaders blame sabotage as gas pours into Baltic from Nord Stream pipelines
Aerial footage of leak in Danish waters from Nord Stream 1 pipeline – video
Sabotage is the most likely cause of leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, European leaders have said, after seismologists reported explosions around the Nord Stream pipelines.
A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm, near where the leaks occurred, twice recorded spikes on Monday, the day on which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines underwent dramatic falls in pressure, the German geological research centre GFZ said.
A Danish military flight over the leaks brought back striking images from the ruptures, including one showing an area of bubbling gas a kilometre wide on the sea’s surface.
Explosions reportedly damage Nord Stream pipelines causing gas leaks in the Baltic Sea
GFZ declined to be drawn on whether the tremors recorded could have been the result of an explosion but scientists at the research centre ruled out the possibility that the leaks could have been caused by earthquakes.
A seismologist quoted by Swedish television suggested the activity may have been the result of explosions. Björn Lund, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network, SNSN, which measures Swedish earthquakes and explosions, told the SVT television channel that the event – one of which registered a magnitude of 2.3 – may have been caused by undersea detonations.
“Breakage of gas pipelines is extremely rare”, Danish authorities said in a statement. The steel pipe itself has a wall of 4.1 cm (1.6 inches) and is coated with steel-reinforced concrete up to 11cm thick. Each section of the pipe weighs 11 tonnes, which goes to 24-25 tonnes after the concrete is applied.
One UK insider speculated that any explosions were unlikely to have been caused by a submarine or underwater vehicle, because their presence would have been detected in the relatively shallow Baltic waters. Sections of the pipelines are between 80 metres and 110 metres deep.
An alternative scenario could be that mines were dropped from a disguised commercial vessel days or weeks ahead of the attack, then remotely detonated to cause the explosions. But the latter scenario was entirely hypothetical, they stressed.
The day of drama began when the Danish energy agency said it had found the leaks on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline north-east of the island of Bornholm, and a third in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Swedish waters south-east of the island. “This is not a small crack. It’s a really big hole,” the energy agency said.
A five-mile exclusion zone for shipping has been set up around Bornholm, and flights below 1,000 metres have been banned in the area. Methane, the primary component of natural gas, partially dissolves in water, is not toxic and creates no hazard when inhaled in limited quantities.
Nord Stream AG, the pipeline operator, had on Monday morning reported an unexpected overnight drop of pressure from 105 to 7 bar in Nord Stream 2, which is filled with gas but was cancelled by Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, shortly before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A further drop of pressure was reported on Monday afternoon in Nord Stream 1, which Russia shut down indefinitely at the start of September, initially saying it needed repairs.
With three separate leaks almost simultaneously, with some distance between them, it was “difficult to imagine” it was a random accident, Frederiksen said at a short press conference during a visit to Poland, where she was participating in the opening of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline.
The news magazine Der Spiegel, quoting government sources, said officials were not ruling out sabotage, designed to cause further uncertainty on Europe’s energy markets.
Since no gas has flowed through either of the pipelines since the start of the month, German authorities have been quick to reassure people that the leaks will not affect its plan to fill gas storage tanks in time for winter.
Environmental NGOs said the leaks were likely to cause large-scale damage to the environment. “As soon as methane in gas form raises from the surface of the sea into the atmosphere, it will massively contribute to the greenhouse effect,” said Sascha Müller-Kraenner of the pressure group Environmental Action Germany.
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NATO said that a series of leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe were the result of sabotage and that attacks on its members’ infrastructure would be met with a collective response from the military alliance.
The statement, from the North Atlantic Council, the decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, didn’t provide details or evidence. It also noted that the damage to the pipelines occurred in international waters. But it marks the first time the alliance has formally warned that it would deter and defend against attacks on its members’ critical infrastructure following the now four documented leaks in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg separately wrote on Twitter that the sabotage on the pipelines was of “deep concern.”
欧洲领导人指责破坏，因为天然气从北溪管道涌入波罗的海
Nord Stream 1 管道在丹麦水域泄漏的航拍镜头
在地震学家报告北溪管道周围发生爆炸后，欧洲领导人表示，破坏是俄罗斯和欧洲之间两条波罗的海天然气管道泄漏的最可能原因。
德国地质研究中心 GFZ 表示，在泄漏发生地附近的丹麦博恩霍尔姆岛的地震仪周一两次记录到峰值，当天北溪 1 号和 2 号天然气管道的压力急剧下降。
丹麦的一次军事飞行从泄漏处带回了令人震惊的图像，其中一张显示了海面上一公里宽的冒泡气体区域。
据报道，爆炸损坏了北溪管道，导致波罗的海天然气泄漏
GFZ 拒绝透露记录的地震是否可能是爆炸的结果，但研究中心的科学家排除了泄漏可能是由地震引起的可能性。
瑞典电视台援引一位地震学家的话说，这次活动可能是爆炸的结果。负责测量瑞典地震和爆炸的瑞典国家地震网络 (SNSN) 主任比约恩·隆德 (Björn Lund) 告诉 SVT 电视频道，该事件（其中一次的震级为 2.3 级）可能是由海底爆炸引起的。
丹麦当局在一份声明中说：“天然气管道破裂极为罕见”。钢管本身有 4.1 厘米（1.6 英寸）的壁，并涂有厚达 11 厘米的钢筋混凝土。管道的每个部分重 11 吨，在使用混凝土后达到 24-25 吨
一位英国内部人士推测，任何爆炸都不太可能是由潜艇或水下航行器引起的，因为它们的存在会在相对较浅的波罗的海水域被发现。管道部分深 80 米至 110 米。
另一种情况可能是在袭击前几天或几周从一艘伪装的商船上投下地雷，然后远程引爆导致爆炸。但他们强调，后一种情况完全是假设性的。
戏剧性的一天开始了，丹麦能源机构表示，它在博恩霍尔姆岛东北部的北溪 1 号管道上发现了泄漏，在该岛东南部的瑞典水域的北溪 2 号管道中发现了第三个泄露。 “这不是一个小裂缝。这是一个非常大的漏洞，”能源机构说。
在博恩霍尔姆周围设立了一个 5 英里的航运禁区，该地区禁止 1000 米以下的飞行。甲烷是天然气的主要成分，部分溶于水，无毒，吸入有限量不会造成危害。
管道运营商 Nord Stream AG 周一早上报告称，Nord Stream 2 的压力在一夜之间意外下降，从 105 巴降至 7 巴，该管道充满了天然气，但在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰前不久,被德国总理奥拉夫·舒尔茨取消。
报道，周一下午北溪 1 号的压力进一步下降，俄罗斯在 9 月初无限期关闭，最初表示需要维修。
弗雷德里克森在访问波兰期间举行的简短新闻发布会上说，几乎同时发生了三个单独的泄漏，它们之间有一定距离，“很难想象”这是一个随机事故，她正在波兰参加波罗的海管道的开通天然气管道。
新闻杂志《明镜周刊》援引政府消息人士的话称，官员们不排除蓄意破坏欧洲能源市场的可能性。
由于自本月初以来没有任何天然气流过这两条管道，德国当局迅速向人们保证，泄漏不会影响其在冬季及时填充储气罐的计划。
环保非政府组织表示，泄漏可能会对环境造成大规模破坏。 “一旦气体形式的甲烷从海面上升到大气中，它将极大地促进温室效应，”压力组织德国环境行动的 Sascha Müller-Kraenner 说。
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看谁最得利益
那就废了，进海水一泡，再不能用了。老美干的可能性最大，和当年炸大使馆差不多
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