New EU roadmap to leave Russian gas – it is

The European commission’s plan to end the imports of Russian fossil fuels runs the risk of replacing a dangerous dependence on another. This is Greenpeace’s main warning after the present presentation of the European Commission of a road map to progressively abandon the import of Russia’s energy.

The Commission has published today a road map with a series of guidelines, but still does not impose any prohibition or sanctions. EU governments and companies are expected to be inserted to progressively eliminate oil purchases, fossil gas and nuclear fuel to Russia by 2027, in an attempt to prevent the Vladimir Putin regime from financing its war in Ukraine.

The Plan recommends the progressive elimination of imports from Russian energy and the search for other suppliers of the same fuels. Greenpeace considers that the road map must be extended to fossil fuels of other suppliers, especially those of hostile regimes to the EU as the current United States government, since, as proposed, the measure It would further locate the EU in the dependence of fossil fuel.

Thomas Gelin, responsible for Greenpeace for weather and energy in the EU, has declared: «Maintaining the flow of money to the Putin war for these fuels is scandalous, but the commission runs the risk of replacing a disastrous dependence on another: to disconnect from the Putin gas and connect to Trump’s. Instead of chaining ourselves to fossil, polluting and risky contracts, governments and EU should reduce energy waste and citizens’ invoices isolating households, and give us true energy security with a massive impulse to renewable energies. The end of Russian fuel imports must be the beginning of the end of fossil fuels completely, and the prohibition of new fossil fuel projects is the first step. Leaving fossil fuels, saving energy and focusing on renewables is the only road map to true energy independence«.

Russian liquefied fossil gas imports reached record levels Last year, and the EU spent more than 7,000 million euros in this fuel, more than has spent on You help Ukraine. Instead, it is being pressed to import more US liquefied gas, and apparently the EU is considering FLEXIBILIZE METhane pollution standards To facilitate US exports, regardless of the climatic impact of methane leaks.

In spite Nord Stream 2 between Russia and Germany. Greenpeace warns that the resumption of the Nord Stream 2 would renew the dependence of the EU Russian gas, would fill the Putin coffers, endanger peace in Europe and undermine the transition to a 100% renewable energy.