Wintershall Dea announced in early March that it would write off its 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) financing in the pipeline as have OMV and Uniper too. However, it was co-financed by several other European companies including Germany's Uniper, chemical company BASF's subsidiary Wintershall Dea as well as Engie, OMV and Shell.Īmid the mass withdrawal of Western business from Russia, the energy companies involved in Nord Stream 2 have been forced to accept big losses on the project. The pipeline was developed and was to be operated by Nord Stream 2 AG, a Swiss-based subsidiary of Russia's state-controlled gas giant Gazprom. It's hard to see a rapprochement between Europe and Russia that could facilitate a green light to Nord Stream 2, even years from now.' 'Dead in the water'

Meanwhile, Russia is threatening to halt gas flows to Europe if payments are not made in rubles. 'Europe's attitude to Russian gas has changed irreversibly, and it is now determined to diversify away from Russian gas. 'We don't believe Nord Stream 2 will ever be commissioned,' Kateryna Filippenko, principal analyst for European gas research at Wood Mackenzie, told CNBC Wednesday. The Group of Seven industrialized nations has rejected this demand.Īgainst this backdrop of bitter geopolitical tensions, the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is now very much in doubt, energy analysts say. Russia has responded by threatening to halt gas exports to perceived 'unfriendly' countries if payments for gas are not made in rubles as opposed to euros or dollars. But the informant said that after Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald, he was also arrested on an unrelated charge, and Vanderslice got to know Ruby better in the Dallas County Jail.Russia's invasion has accelerated the EU's shift away from Russian energy with the bloc saying it will slash Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of 2022, and that it plans to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports by 2030. Vanderslice told the FBI in 1977 that Ruby said nothing to him immediately after the assassination. The 3 most interesting JFK assassination records.Immediately after the shooting, Ruby left and headed toward the area of the Dallas Morning News Building.' 'He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building at the time of the shooting. 'The informant stated that on the morning of the assassination, Ruby contacted him and asked if he would 'like to watch the fireworks,'' an FBI record dated April 6, 1977, says. The interaction on the morning of the JFK assassination wasn't officially relayed to the FBI until March 1977, and the informant was eventually revealed to be Bob Vanderslice of Dallas. New records – first highlighted by University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato - describe what an FBI informant later told officials about Ruby. Kennedy was killed, according to new records the National Archives released Friday. Jack Ruby, the man who eventually shot Lee Harvey Oswald, told an FBI informant to 'watch the fireworks' on the day President John F.

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