Germany imported 32% more coal from elsewhere after sanctioning Russia
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
The U.S. government was the primary chearleader in convincing the EU to impose sanctions on Russian energy – which includes Russian coal (and oil and LNG).
Last year, Germany imported:
● 37% *less* coal from Russia, and
● 32% *more* coal from the U.S.
Funny how energy sanctions work.
I’m curious if there are accurate records of the amount of increase of U.S. LNG exports to EU last year.
These EU sanctions against energy seem designed to shift EU’s energy dependency from relatively cheap Russian natural gas (and coal) to much more expensive U.S. LNG (and coal).
● The first casualty of an energy war is truth.
Notice how the UN adamantly refuses to investigate who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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“Germany last year imported 44.4 million tonnes of hard coal, 8% more than a year earlier, as it burnt more coal after Russia turned off the gas taps, industry figures showed on Monday.
Russia’s coal shipments to the country dropped by 37% in the year in reflection of a European Union ban on Russia receipts after Aug. 11, the data, made available by coal importers’ group VDKi on request, also showed.
… The United States last year stepped up deliveries, hiking exports to Germany by 32% to 9.4 million tonnes
… German utilities revved up coal burning for electricity to help avoid possible shortfalls of gas for industry processes, bringing back coal as a back-up, despite its high carbon emissions.
The government has backed efforts to shore up liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline gas purchases of non-Russian origin to make this a short-term trend only, and scale back coal. …”