Rest Of World Ignores Roger Harrabin
By Paul Homewood
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Today’s round up of the news you won’t get from Roger Harrabin:
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Despite US sanctions and a European Parliament resolution, Russian pipe-laying ship Fortuna has started work in Danish waters ahead of the resumption of construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline which would bring Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
“The laybarge Fortuna has started works in the construction corridor in the Danish EEZ, ahead of the resumption of the Nord Stream 2 construction. All works are performed in line with relevant permits,” a spokesman for Nord Stream 2 told New Europe on January 25.
He referred to the notice to mariners by the Danish Maritime Authority (DMA). “The authorities announced construction works from January 15 onwards, including preparatory works and tests before pipelay works start,” he said.
MEPs passed a resolution on January 21 calling on the EU to immediately stop the completion of Nord Stream 2. MEPs also underline that the EU should no longer be a welcoming place for Russian wealth of unclear origin,” the European Parliament said in a press release.
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The German government said it will not abandon the Nord Stream 2 project, despite US sanctions and calls by the European Parliament to impose EU measures against the Russian-backed gas pipeline project over the Navalny case.
“There is no direct connection between the Navalny case and Nord Stream 2,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in Berlin on Monday (25 January), adding that the attitude of the government to the project has not changed.
While Madame Merkel is saying “Up Yours”, it’s business as usual in China and India:
China’s raw coal production increased by 0.9 percent year on year in 2020, while its coal imports augmented 1.5 percent, statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed.
A total of 3.84 billion tons of raw coal were manufactured in China last year, reporting a year-on-year expansion of 90 million tons, according to the NBS statistics.
In December alone, the raw coal production increased 3.2 percent from a year ago to 350 million tons, 1.7 percentage points higher than the upsurge seen in November.
Oil demand from China has been one of the few bright spots for a global petroleum industry severely impacted by a long-term global supply glut and the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The world’s second-largest economy hunger for energy keeps growing despite the global COVID-19 pandemic and a resultant sharp decline in global economic activity during 2020. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs show oil imports for January to November 2020 grew by 9.1% year over year to an average of 13.5 million barrels daily. The top five suppliers of crude oil to China during the period were Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Brazil, and Angola.
The government may give a ‘Make in India’ push to oil and gas explorers, as it is considering a proposal to almost halve cess [tax on oil]on domestic crude oil to encourage exploration activity and allow Covid-hit oil producers to protect their margins.
And the Mullahs are already taking advantage of Biden’s weakness:
LONDON (Reuters) – Iranian oil exports are climbing in January after a boost in the fourth quarter despite U.S. sanctions, three assessments showed, in a sign that the end of Donald Trump’s term as U.S. President may be changing buyer behaviour.
Iran’s exports have shrunk since Trump in 2018 withdrew the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions. New President Joe Biden has said if Tehran resumed compliance with the deal, Washington would too.
Figures from SVB International and two other firms that estimate Iranian supply by tracking tankers indicated exports are rising.
SVB International estimated Iranian crude exports increased to 710,000 barrels per day (bpd) in December from 490,000 bpd in October, and that shipments and production so far in January were moving up.
“Iran and customers are expecting an easier approach from the Biden administration,” said Sara Vakshouri of SVB. “Iran has already started increasing its production and exports in anticipation of negotiations with the U.S.”
Meanwhile Harrabin frets about a tiny coal mine in Cumbria!
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Little things are the only issues that a little mind like Harrabin can understand.
Norway says up yours Roger.
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/1/19/norway-grants-61-new-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-licenses
Opp din Roger!
🙂
The West’s willing economic suicide opens the door for the rise of China and the Asian Century.
If western economies collapse, then so does that of China
Maybe so. Good point. Thank you.
They (Chinese interests) will sieze mineral and natural assets in the fire sales to come.
Let’s hope Fortuna has some Spetsnaz moonlighting as pipelayers to again deal with any (Greenpeace) protesters foolish enough to try to interfere with a prime Russian commercial project.
In Russia such ‘protesters’ are known as hooligans — when they’re not charging them with piracy, that is 😆
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/360794
I read that Biden, having cancelled Keystone keeps his mate Buffet still earning $2Billion a year just from transporting the oil that would have gone through the pipeline. If Hunter ‘negotiates’ 10% for the ‘big guy’ plus a little on the side for himself I can fully understand why Biden killed the pipeline. I do so hope that a new pair of Woodward and Bernstein come along and digs out the details of the scam. It stinks to high heaven!
Buffet and his crew are usually quite open about their thinking.
The pipeline thing is more about satisfying the green, and growing, part of the left.
Just look at all the other “green” things he wants. No hope in any of it of impacting the “climate.”
Great article Paul. I wish we could see more similar to this to keep us balanced amongst the onslaught of crisis talk. I’m a chartered accountant (retired) and the Institute has definitely surrendered to the true believers. So much for investigation, analysis and applied logic.
Agree with miket, good work again Paul. Wonder why the ‘pretty media’ wokes never ask how the world runs?
First they bankrupt you and then they buy you out.
Another green bust
Emily tweets
Two more energy suppliers have gone bust
… with more than 400,000 customers between them
. Ofgem says Green Network Energy (360,000 households)
and Simplicity Energy (50,000 households) have both ceased trading.
Simplicity Energy?
Not liked to Australia’s Simplicity Funerals?
http://www.geoffstuff.com/Simplicity itself.jpg
Geoff S
Gremlins abound!
Try again.
http://www.geoffstuff.com/Simplicity itself.jpg
Oh heck. Just copy and paste. Geoff S
7:30pm ITV big PRtrickery show
telling you ‘buy more green stuff, you are getting something for nothing’
Bottomline someone is funding the subsidies so over all it’s costing us more
There are 12+ promotional tweets for this sho
Wow 6:12pm they are promoting it for 4 minutes on local ITV news.
They are laying it on thick
Really thick
“If temperatures keep rising at the current rate it will be more than 3C warmer by 2100”
“but if we just do these little things it will make a huge difference !”
I’d love to be 3C warmer. Can they bring the 3C warmer forward to 2022 please! Brrr
video promo tweet
They get properly called out in the GMB thread
Paul the PR BS was 19 out of 10
I msged you some notes
I always wonder about this type of programme how they manage to find the members of the public to take part. They always find the most stupid people you can imagine, and this programme is no different – a real couple of thicko females!
All greenwash involves spending a lot to save a little later, but by the time the savings outweigh the initial investment, the equipment bought is worn out. Putting solar panels on your roof for £10,000 to save a few hundred a year means you’re never going to get your money back. £10,000 of electricity is 20-25 years’ worth, by which time the panels will be obsolete.
Split weather countrywide today – freezing in the far north, very mild in the SW.
Warmest I’ve seen so far is a spring-like 15C at Exeter Airport.
(Record is 17.6C January 27 2003 Eynsford Kent)
Not going to last. Cold over all UK from 05 Feb. Enjoy tidying your garden during these mild respites, there’s more cold to come.
Can’t tidy the garden, it’s under water. I think it is called “winter”
Yes it looks like it’s going to continue swinging mild/cool in the South, perhaps more stable cold into Feb. at some point
It’s not going to stop the mean Jan CET 2021 being ~3C colder than 2020. Inter-year variability aka weather makes supposed climate change changes look rather silly.
thursday night .. ITV at it .. “going green” with weather girl Laura Tobin. usual rubbish about conserving but all in the context of reducing “greenhouse gasses” to prevent the 3C temperature rise “scientist” say will happen. Also referenced 2020 worst year ever – records and more severe weather. usual tosh
And blatant lies from the Met Office senior scientist. I shall watch that bit again when it becomes available on ITVPlayer and complain to the Met Office.
Here is what Dr Rob Chadwick, Climate Scientist, Met Office, said at about 5min 45secs:
Our burning of fossil fuels “emit what are called greenhouse gases. They act a bit like a blanket and they trap heat in the atmosphere and they cause our planet to heat up”. The woman presenter then went on to falsely claim that the main greenhouse gas was carbon dioxide.
His statement was false in that:
1 Greenhouse gases do not act a bit like a blanket. A blanket acts by stopping a body losing energy by convection and insulating the body and thus slowing down the conduction of energy from the body. A greenhouse gas forms part of the convective process cooling the surface of the planet. A greenhouse gas is an absorber and emitter of infrared radiation, which is the type of radiation emitted by the surface of the planet. Greenhouse gases do not act at all like a blanket.
2 Heat is a transient phenomenon. It is the rate of energy transfer from a hotter body to a cooler body. Heat cannot be trapped. He probably means that they trap energy.
3 However, greenhouse gases do not trap energy. A molecule of a greenhouse gas which absorbs a photon of infrared radiation almost immediately loses the energy absorbed through collision with other molecules in the atmosphere and by emitting infrared radiation and effectively maintaining thermal equilibrium with the surrounding gas molecules. The most that greenhouse gases can do is slow down slightly the infrared radiation out to space, resulting in a slight increase in the temperature of the atmosphere to maintain the energy balance between incoming radiation from the sun and outgoing radiation to space. With the atmospheric infrared radiation spectrum essentially saturated, any heating by further greenhouse gases is minuscule.
I would be interested in any comments on the above.
Most so-called greenhouse gas is water vapour. Any claim of trapping heat fails due to convection (wind), which is the point of a real greenhouse – no convection.
The idea of a greenhouse on a freely convecting atmosphere is absurd.
Trying to outdo the BBC…
And Korea is building 170 mln USD vessel fro deep-sea oil and gas exploration
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210128001500320?section=business/industry
Isn’t it a strange phenomenon that a technically ignorant and insignificant guy like this can have so much power and influence when he gets the right backers! Sadly, history is full of such cases.
And what percentage of all birds have we lost due to these KILLING MACHINES ??
Well he is a big fu*** idiot. Please sign my petition https://www.change.org/p/cumbria-county-council-confirmation-of-mining-in-whitehaven/u/28329044?cs_tk=AmytgvgRbTdmAR-B_F8AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvHcqoKKvV76WL7QaNd6jYA4%3D&utm_campaign=9f20a8297a5e46a99aefd9f4ffd5687b&utm_content=initial_v0_4_0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_term=cs