The city of Pasvalys, located in northern Lithuania, has already been evacuated.
The mayor of the Lithuanian Pasvalys: “There were unexpected and frightening sounds, it seemed that planes were flying at low altitude somewhere above the city.”
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Assholes are really trying to start ww3. No coincidence that the wef is meeting?
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Not so dire a situation. Pipeline is used at minimal flow during the winter.
As the article states, this is a predominately seasonal pipeline and minimally used during the Winter months.
Repairs will take appx 1-2 weeks at most. Cause for explosion is assumed to be faulty equipment and/or possibly human error (lack of employee safeguards/checks speculated in comments).
Zero casualties. Small town with population less than 500 where event occurred was evacuated, which is appropriate response.
Gaze line actually only really feeds mainly two "mid sized" cities in S. LV: Bauska, Tervete & Jekabpils. Basically like cutting gas off to a State Nature Park (Tervete) and Jekabpils is pretty small. About 1/20th the size of say Louisville Kentucky for comparison. You can walk across the entire city in less than 2 hours. Bauska half that.
And NO.... Not all gas is piped through this line. We have other lines, and actually are still getting gaze from Russia until the end of the month (agreed upon during sanction discussions from last year).
Breaking news for sure, but just one of the many common stereotypical industrial infrastructure failures that plague most of N.E. Europe unfortunately.
Hope these bits of info shed some light on the subject. Paldies draugiem!
Great reporting. Thanks for that. 😀
No problema.
I will make some phone calls in the AM, see of any revelations have come to light. Also I'm sure that some asshats will attempt to blame muh Russia...
Really though that is so counter productive, much like Nord Stream II, but this is like a drinking straw compared to that line.
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Just dooin what we do.
Pipelines can be repaired quickly. Now, as to how it exploded.... That could be very interesting indeed.
The sky is orange and the explosions is huge.
I was part of a team that surveyed three pipeline explosions in Florida several years ago. The place looked like Hiroshima. Compressor station. It was up and running within 48 hours. Pipelines were in the 30" range. It's just a matter of turning off the gas and replacing the line. The station was a bigger job due to the complexity of the pipes, and it was still good to go quickly.
Funny story. One of my co-workers was smoking a cigarette when a guy came up and told him he had to put it out. He looked around and said, "Looks to me like the damage has already been done."
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That's a different pipe. And LT govt is still in talks with Moscow on whether or not the gaze will flow or the railways will be shut down AFAIK? I'll make some calls when it's not almost midnight local time.
Sky News local video hat tip u/BerlinWallCrosser