{"id":4736,"date":"2023-11-09T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2023-11-09T18:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:21:56","slug":"us-puts-ally-at-risk-just-to-kill-project-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"US puts ally at risk just to \u2018kill\u2019 project in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The United States is seeking to kill the Russian Arctic LNG-2 project implemented by NOVATEK. This was stated by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week we leveled new sanctions against the <\/p>\n<p>Arctic LNG-2 project<\/p>\n<p>which is NOVATEK&#8217;s flagship LNG project. <\/p>\n<p>Our objective is to kill this project<\/p>\n<p>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such an open confession, however cynical, this time is not only about Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unknown whether Mr. Pyatt is aware that Japan, the US&#8217;s closest ally in every way, has invested $3 billion in the project.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2021, the Japan Arctic LNG owns a 10% stake in it.<\/p>\n<p>And despite the unfolding Ukrainian conflict, the Japanese government insisted that this involvement be continued due to the project being vital to Japan&#8217;s energy security.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura said that the latest US sanctions against the Arctic LNG 2 project will surely have an impact in the country and they now need to assess it.<\/p>\n<p>These words are quite interesting since they prove that the imposed sanctions came as much of a surprise to Japan as they did to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps even more so, since allies are not usually expected to undermine your own energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Mr. Pyatt just made it clear that if there is an opportunity to &#8216;kill&#8217; an opponent&#8217;s project or two, it makes absolutely no difference who else gets hurt in the process.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is seeking to kill the Russian Arctic LNG-2 project implemented by NOVATEK. This was stated by US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt. &#8220;Last week we leveled new sanctions against the Arctic LNG-2 project which is NOVATEK&#8217;s flagship LNG project. Our objective is to kill this project .\u201d Such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}