The analytical program "However," with Mikhail Leontyev 29 November 2012
Ukrainian President Yanukovych is conducting negotiations in Qatar on the purchase of liquefied gas, which are designed to liberate Ukraine from the terrible stranglehold of Russian Gazprom.
“We are now in the work process,” Yanukovych said. “We have hope, we have enthusiasm, we will find all the necessary solutions.” The Ukrainian leadership connects bright prospects with the completion of the construction of an LNG terminal near Odessa. Construction of the terminal, which began literally on Monday, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov called "the first major step towards ensuring the energy independence of Ukraine ...
Liquefied gas for us will be two times cheaper than Russian.
True, how much Russian gas will cost on completion of the terminal, nobody knows, even Gazprom. By the way, Ukraine could get cheap gas right now by joining the Customs Union. However, Ukraine is wildly interested in its independence and, at the same time, is obliged to systematically confirm its "European choice." And therefore, it is in constant search for exotic ways of extracting cheap gas instead of Russian. The trouble is that only the independence of the energy of the independence can not save.
The question is very acute: how to find your own course during the second wave of economic crisis, ”Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov complained. How to maintain fiscal economic stability in the face of reduced external demand and a shortage of credit? The Prime Minister sees strong credit support for Ukrainian exports. In parallel The Ukrainian government has decided to find additional funds for the payment of salaries, the debt on which reached 100 billions of dollars.
Do not go to the doctor - the Ukrainian Independence Square will not withstand any second wave of crisis. And this is a question not only of the structure of the crisis, the structure of the Ukrainian economy, but also the structure of the Ukrainian state.
The contract for the construction of a momentous LNG terminal at the cost of a billion dollars, which Prime Minister Azarov, Fuel and Energy Minister Boyko and head of the state investment agency Kaskiv signed with the Spanish company Gas Natural Fenos, does not exist. According to the Financial Times, the Spanish company does not know the person whom Ukrainian officials have identified as George Sarda Bonway. And I did not sign any agreements with Ukraine. A delegation of Ukrainian signatories urgently flew to Spain to find out with whom they signed the contract.
So the first major pancake on the path of "energy independence" of Ukraine turned out to be somehow lumpy. There is no reason to be surprised if you remember that it was the current leaders of the Ukrainian fuel and energy complex that once found the source of completely free gas, appropriating more than a billion cubic meters directly from the pipe. In general, predatory gas production from the transit pipe was the main source of energy independence, until Tymoshenko signed a well-known contract with Russia. Because of which both the Square and Tymoshenko are now suffering.
President Yanukovych correctly noted: "There is enthusiasm, we will find solutions." In this wonderful stories not in the miracle that it happened, but in the fact that Ukraine with all these miracles still exists. What we can do is congratulate the courageous fraternal Ukrainian people.
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