Cold winters and lack of gas are able to lead to the theft of gas on the way from Russia to the European Union, said the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for energy, g?nther Oettinger. Oettinger has called for a speedy resolution of the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, ITAR-TASS reported." during a long and cold winter Ukraine will not get gas, it will not be a sufficient number of its gas, and then there is the danger that the gas will steal, a danger that on the way from East to West it will just be lost, " he warned the Commissioner. According to him, " until mid-October should be the concept of the European Union, involving the provision of each member state of the EU a warm apartment, infrastructure financing and maintenance of the activities of our industry in the period from November to March "." must to prevent further escalation of the conflict in Ukraine ", - noticed g?nther Oettinger. Also Oettinger said that the gas pipeline " South stream " can exist and work in the EU only EU rules, RIA " Novosti ". Remember, the Parliament of Ukraine in the last month of summer has passed in the 2nd reading of the draft law, which provides for the possibility of introducing a relatively Russia 29 types of penalties, including termination of transit of energy resources. Ukraine has repeatedly stated that guarantees trouble-free pumping of gas from Russia to Europe, and because of this, even called on the EU to block the " South stream ". Remember, June 16 from 10. 00 GMT Gazprom has entered the mode of payment for the supply and stop supplying gas to Ukraine. The pipeline is only intended for transit to the European Union blue fuel in the amount of 185 million cubic meters per day. The Deputy head of Naftogaz Alexander Todiychuk said gas reserves in underground storage of Ukraine may run out of the country until November, When most of the economy - until the end of the year. On June 27, the gas storage of Ukraine was estimated at 14, 24 billion cubic meters.
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