Britain plans to cut mainland Europe off from its supply of British gas should severe supply shortages emerge due to ongoing hostilities with Russia.
The United Kingdom is to shut down its pipelines feeding gas to mainland Europe in the event of severe supply shortages, a report has claimed.
Part of the country’s emergency plans to deal with a gas crisis, mandarins in charge of Britain’s national grid are also reportedly planning to cut off large industrial users at home should supplies become tight., gas interconnectors linking British gas to Belgium and the Netherlands are due to be shut down should a gas crisis occur in the UK, though no mention is made regarding the supply of gas to the Irish republic.
It would be reportedly one of the first emergency measures to be implemented to ensure British homes and businesses remain supplied, likely much to the chagrin of the UK’s European neighbours. However, one European gas tsar has claimed that such a move would cause problems Britain too, which sometimes imports gas through those same pipelines from Europe during the winter.
“I would definitely recommend they [the UK] reconsider stopping the interconnection [in the event of a crisis],” thereports President Bart Jan Hoevers of European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas as saying, who argued that the connectors were “also beneficial for the UK in the winter”.
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