Etiket energy

News, Etc.Less than a month after Turkey signed the partnership agreement for the Nabucco pipeline project which is designed to break the Russian monopoly in energy supplies to Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Turkish host Tayyip Erdogan announced in Ankara plans for intensive cooperation in oil and natural gas. Erdogan hosted both Putin and Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi this week while his ministers and bureaucrats signed some 20 protocols envisaging cooperation between Turkey and Russia in the fields of energy, customs, trade, transportation, etc. According to political circles Berlusconi was the politician who brokered the deal between Turkey and Russia, so he decided to make himself present while the Turks and the Russians were sealing their agreement. Putin announced that Russia will supply oil to Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline and cooperate with Turkey in the South Stream project which will transport Russian oil and natural gas under the Black Sea. Turkey also agreed to allow the Russians drill oil in Turkey’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea. In exchange for the Russian oil and gas, Erdogan presented his guest with a project to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey. Putin announced during their joint press conference in Ankara that a Russian-Turkish consortium has won the tender for a nuclear power plant and its construction will be beginning shortly. While the leaders were showing happy faces in the conference chamber, environmentalists were demonstrating outside against plans to build a nuclear power station in Turkey. As expected, they were manhandled by police, both uniformed and plain clothes. Especially an elderly lady demonstrator was pulled to the ground by a hefty police officer who sat on her beating her up. The scene caused onlookers to react. Inside the conference hall the President of Calik Holding, Ahmet Calik and […]