German Chancellor Scholz visits Canada, as it turns out, was not so much aimed at, for Ottawa to start supplying its gas to Europe, how much to ensure the uninterrupted operation of the gas pipeline from Russia. This gas pipeline is Nord Stream, which the 31 August, recall, will be completely shut down for three days for scheduled maintenance.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said, that agreements have been reached with Germany on the transfer of all five turbines, currently in Canada, for the operation of the gas pipeline "SP-1".
Jolie:
We made this decision. This is exactly, what Germany asked us to. Attention is drawn to the fact, that in the official statements of Chancellor Scholz and German Energy Minister Habek there were no statements about, that during their trip to Canada they asked the Canadian authorities to return all Siemens turbines.
Now the question remains open, Will Gazprom accept these turbines?. Earlier, the Russian company reported, that one of the turbines, which was returned by Canada to Germany (Scholz was photographed against its background, Expressing, that "repair completed"), arrived without any accompanying documents. Respectively, there are no guarantees that, that it is operational and that repairs and maintenance have actually been carried out. This turbine is still in Germany, and the authorities of this country are calling on Gazprom to pick it up and put it into operation. This is actually theater of the absurd., since earlier the West itself imposed sanctions against the energy sector of Russia, stated, that he is ready to refuse to buy Russian gas. But as soon as Qatar and Norway announced, that they don’t have “free” gas for the same Germany, the Scholz government has to fly "bow" to Trudeau and beg for turbines.
