07-05-2009, 04:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2009, 04:43 AM by Bruce Clemens.)
It's more than just "Peace keeping practice".
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7557049.stm
A cluster of major pipelines pass through Georgia...
...the existing Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline (BTE) carries some six billion cubic metres of gas a year (bcm/y) to Turkey, some of which is then forwarded to Greece.
The European Union is also backing proposals for development of essentially parallel lines to carry as much as a further 30 bcm/y of gas from Turkmenistan, and perhaps Kazakhstan.
Because transit through such a corridor bypasses Russia, it offers advantages to both Caspian producers and European consumers.
From http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/2008/0...hoice.html
[B]The South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) is a natural gas line running along the same route as the BTC from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey. Controlled by a non-Russian consortium, it represents a crucial circumvention of Russia as Europe’s natural gas supplier. ...Germany, as one example, gets 40% of the natural gas it depends on for warmth in the winter through the SCP...[/B]
From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...tions.html
...membership of the Atlantic Alliance for both Georgia and Ukraine was not a matter of "if" but "when"...
Georgia's fate is about the future world order...
From http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/?p=1822
...the proposed route of the Nabucco pipeline, designed pretty much exclusively to prevent Russia from being able to play politics with European energy supply, as has already happened in Ukraine and elsewhere - including, ahem… Georgia... For more on Nabucco’s significance, check out this handy report (warning, PDF), ... demonstrating how Nabucco is intended to be “the missing link” between the giant gas sources of Central Asia and the dwindling gas supplies/rising demand of Europe.
And so it should all begin to come clear. The West wants Georgia for its strategic value as one of the links in the Caucasian energy chain - the only route from Central Asia to Europe that doesn’t involve passing through less than reliable countries like Russia or Iran. The only supply route for non-European natural gas that will not be under Russian control... and a direct competitor to Russia’s own planned Blue Stream pipeline.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7557049.stm
A cluster of major pipelines pass through Georgia...
...the existing Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline (BTE) carries some six billion cubic metres of gas a year (bcm/y) to Turkey, some of which is then forwarded to Greece.
The European Union is also backing proposals for development of essentially parallel lines to carry as much as a further 30 bcm/y of gas from Turkmenistan, and perhaps Kazakhstan.
Because transit through such a corridor bypasses Russia, it offers advantages to both Caspian producers and European consumers.
From http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/2008/0...hoice.html
[B]The South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) is a natural gas line running along the same route as the BTC from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey. Controlled by a non-Russian consortium, it represents a crucial circumvention of Russia as Europe’s natural gas supplier. ...Germany, as one example, gets 40% of the natural gas it depends on for warmth in the winter through the SCP...[/B]
From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...tions.html
...membership of the Atlantic Alliance for both Georgia and Ukraine was not a matter of "if" but "when"...
Georgia's fate is about the future world order...
From http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/?p=1822
...the proposed route of the Nabucco pipeline, designed pretty much exclusively to prevent Russia from being able to play politics with European energy supply, as has already happened in Ukraine and elsewhere - including, ahem… Georgia... For more on Nabucco’s significance, check out this handy report (warning, PDF), ... demonstrating how Nabucco is intended to be “the missing link” between the giant gas sources of Central Asia and the dwindling gas supplies/rising demand of Europe.
And so it should all begin to come clear. The West wants Georgia for its strategic value as one of the links in the Caucasian energy chain - the only route from Central Asia to Europe that doesn’t involve passing through less than reliable countries like Russia or Iran. The only supply route for non-European natural gas that will not be under Russian control... and a direct competitor to Russia’s own planned Blue Stream pipeline.
"If you're looking for something that isn't there, you're wasting your time and the taxpayers' money."
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses