Pipelines
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Kenya is tasked with developing a regional commodity exchange, improving human resources through education and consultancy services, and building both crude and refined oil
pipelines.
If global leaders can come together to address the challenges and opportunities facing our economies today, we can strengthen our ability to cultivate global and sustainable talent
pipelines.
Yet the capacity of existing
pipelines
between the EU and Russia is already more than double Europe’s current demand.
Within a very short time, both the Brotherhood and Yamal
pipelines
– which link Russia with, respectively, Ukraine and Poland – will almost certainly begin to collapse as businesses.
New Western investment in new
pipelines
would commit Europe’s energy system to sticking with Russian natural gas, and perhaps discourage the transition to efficient energy use.
Much of the subsequent destruction and looting of Iraqi oil facilities and
pipelines
reflects the widespread realization that control of oil means control of Iraq.
The key reform issues are well known: the price of gas must be increased substantially to reflect its cost, subsidies for domestic coal production must be stopped, and governance of the country’s pipelines, which still earn huge royalties for carrying Russian gas to Western Europe, must be overhauled.
Ever since these
pipelines
were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast amounts of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.
Finally, the revenues from the gas
pipelines
must be returned to the state’s coffers.
But, as a confidence-building measure, Russia should be invited into a tripartite agreement under which operational control over the
pipelines
would be entrusted to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, an institution in which all parties have a stake.
The EBRD would safeguard the legitimate interests of all parties (including Russia), ensuring the proper operation and maintenance of the
pipelines
and overseeing the distribution of transit fees.
Although it surrendered control of its gas
pipelines
to Gazprom, it is still charged a usurious price in the face of Russian demands that it, too, join the customs union.
All too often, the world’s poor are forced to drink contaminated water, drill holes in pipelines, or buy bottled water that is far more expensive than what flows from the taps of their richer neighbors.
This incoherent claim has underpinned policy in Canada, where the authorities continue to push for major new tar-sands
pipelines.
To make matters worse, falling oil prices and attacks on
pipelines
imperil a hydrocarbon industry that provides 63% of government revenues.
Such a move would put Ukraine’s strategic network of gas
pipelines
under direct Russian control, and, as Tymoshenko, now the opposition leader, has noted, would be tantamount to the “full absorption of Ukraine by Russia.”
Yet, if Argentina receives sufficient investment to build the infrastructure – the pipelines, railways, silica mines, and waste sites – needed to make Vaca Muerta profitable, the country may become effectively locked into full exploitation.
While insurance industry representatives declare their intent and passion to rein in climate change and ensure a livable planet, in the back rooms their agents are still busy working their financial magic to underwrite new coal-fired power stations, oil rigs, tar sands projects, gas pipelines, and other polluting projects.
It is here that China is currently investing “billions of dollars in mega projects like expressways, tunnels, and oil and gas pipelines.”
Tools that could be used to leverage institutional investments include public-private partnerships to develop clear and transparent project
pipelines
for major green infrastructure projects, green banks and green bonds, and instruments that mitigate risk and enhance the availability of credit.
The effort must be sustained until the
pipelines
funneling Russian cash to European parties are shut down for good.
But that promise was based more on existing IFI
pipelines
than on transition countries’ emerging needs.
Local lawlessness has led to gang warfare and persistent illegal tapping into the
pipelines
to steal oil, leading to further massive oil spills and frequent explosions that kill dozens, including innocent bystanders.
Amid Trump’s initial moves to “shake up” Washington, DC, including a five-year lobbying ban and approvals of
pipelines
that President Barack Obama had blocked, he has made some serious – and avoidable – mistakes.
The economic benefits of such a strategy for Senegal are potentially vast: new industries in mineral processing, transport, and shipping, bringing higher-value-added employment; budget revenues from transit fees for minerals exports and pipelines; and improved infrastructure connecting the country’s rural heartland to Dakar and the coast.
Power plants, pipelines, ocean transport, transmission lines, dams, land use, rail, highways, buildings, vehicles, appliances, and much more must all fit together into a working whole.
For example, Black Rhino, a fund set up by Blackstone, one of the world’s largest multinational private equity firms, focuses on the development and acquisition of energy projects, such as fuel storage, pipelines, and transmission networks.
Furthermore, Iran would likely strike the
pipelines
in the Arabian Peninsula that would otherwise allow oil to bypass the strait.
It has built or is building
pipelines
to Turkey and Germany, taken over an oil company, and sought footholds in European distribution markets.
Europe can help by insisting that Russia participate in the European Energy Charter, which calls for Gazprom to grant its production competitors access to Russian pipelines, and for all disputes to be settled by international arbitration.
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