Just a reminder that both Fortune and Forbes is now almost entirely made up of sponsored articles that often don't mention who the sponsor is even if the sponsor is a foreign government. The most blatant example of this is the Pakistani government sponsoring an article in Forbes calling Pakistan the best place for solo female travelers.
> while importing more LNG means constructing dedicated terminals in Europe that can regasify liquid gas, a process which can take anywhere from two to five years.<p>It might have taken that long in normal times. In times of crises, it can be done in as little as half a year [1].
Expect more terminals to become operational in the coming (half) year.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/956102/lng-terminal-in-eemshaven-in-gebruik-genomen-half-jaar-geleden-niet-gedacht" rel="nofollow">https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/956102/lng-terminal-in-eemsha...</a>
I find it rather odd that this article twice claims that rising energy costs were due to worker unions.<p>Also, there's no mention anywhere of what production stops would cause for other countries. Can you imagine building a chip plant without ASML? No. That means they can force rather high prices worldwide.<p>They certainly are correct that it's going to be difficult, but taking about nuclear power plants who needed to shut down due to a hot summer? That seems like a strawman to me, because their cooling is going to be fine in winter.
F.U.D. article. Flagged. Like somebody else here already noticed, fortune is not something to be trusted due to article sponsorship; I guess this one was commissioned by FSB&Co, because that's all they have nowadays, online fearmongering, since on war Ukraine is kicking their asses.
I guess we'll soon see exactly how right or wrong Trumps predictions were in 2018 that Germany was 'captive' to Russia back when the Germans were all laughing at him for those comments.
As an european here it is almost my obligation to remind every european of why we talk about the energy crisis (which is a fact, of course) and we never talk about the causes and who decided that we should support one side or the other.<p>I am against all this 4-bureaucrats-decide whether we enter a war or not, with the devastating consequences for energy and the nuclear risk at which they could potentially involve us in.<p>The opinions about who is bad or good in this war, I do not care. I do not support wars or war involvement. Diplomacy. When you cannot with diplomacy and it is not really your duty, just stay away.