The action is 'bitter' but 'necessary, German economy minister says.
last Thursday that it was cutting supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that links Russia's gas to Germany due to technical problems."To reduce gas consumption, less gas must be used to generate electricity. Coal-fired power plants will have to be used more instead," Habeck said, according to DW.
Our thought bubble,: The announcement shows how the global oil and gas crunch — worsened by the Russian invasion invasion of Ukraine and responses to it — could work against carbon-cutting in the near-term — even though EU leaders insist they're speeding up efforts to replace Russian fossil fuels with clean energy.
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