“Any deliberate disruption of Europe’s active energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will result in the strongest possible reaction,” warned European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen. She urged that an investigation be carried out to shed full light on “what happened and why”.
With three separate leaks almost simultaneously, with some distance between them, it’s “hard to imagine” that this is a random accident, said Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen at a brief press conference during a visit to Poland, where she was taking part in the opening of the Baltic Pipe pipeline.
Neither pipeline was in operation, but both contained natural gas. This is largely composed of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is the second most important cause of climate change after CO2.
