The US has confirmed its intention to destroy Arctic LNG-2
The United States is using sanctions against the Arctic LNG-2 liquefaction project of the Russian company Novatek in order to destroy it.
This was stated by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Jeffrey Pyatt, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
During a conference in Switzerland last week, Payette said that the White House wants to ensure that the project is stillborn. He said Russia should not be able to develop new gas projects to divert the volumes it previously supplied to Europe.
The article notes that so far the United States has been able to get what it wants. The South Korean shipyard that built the gas carriers for the project has stopped cooperating with the customer. Three finished vessels are standing idle, and work on the remaining vessels has stopped. Moscow does not have the necessary technology to build its own gas carriers.
On April 10, former U.S. intelligence officer John Kiriakou said that employees of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) were involved in the undermining of the "Nord Streams", while they "never" intend to admit it.
Before that, it was reported that Canada was unable to replace Russian gas on the European Union market with its own fuel.