{"id":48929,"date":"2022-10-11T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48929"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:42:57","slug":"sanchez-increases-the-purchase-of-russian-gas-while-prohibiting-its-extraction-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/11\/sanchez-increases-the-purchase-of-russian-gas-while-prohibiting-its-extraction-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez increases the purchase of Russian gas while prohibiting its extraction in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not necessary to be very bad thought to wonder if Pedro S\u00e1nchez serves the interests of Spain or Russia, in view of the things he is doing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/12\/the-betrayal-of-pedro-sanchez-to-ukraine-spain-increased-the-purchase-of-russian-gas\/\">The betrayal of Pedro S\u00e1nchez to Ukraine: Spain increased the purchase of Russian gas<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/13\/usa-points-out-russia-spent-300-million-to-influence-politicians-in-several-countries\/\">USA points out Russia spent $300 million to influence politicians in several countries<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez promised help to Ukraine but is giving it to Russia<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On April 21, during his visit to Kiev, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2022\/210422-sanchezviajeucrania.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\" _blank\">the president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez, affirmed his \"full support for Ukraine\" and promised Zelensky \"all the help that is in our hands.\"<\/a> <strong>Until now, military aid Spain to Ukraine has been rather modest<\/strong>, without so far not a single heavy vehicle has been sent to that country, despite the fact that it has been talked about for months. <strong>However, the S\u00e1nchez government is helping Russia, and a lot, with its gas purchases from that country<\/strong>, something that you have been able to read in recent months in the information that has been published by Counting Stars about this issue.<\/p>\n<p><big>His government increased imports of Russian gas again in September<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <strong>Enag\u00e1s<\/strong>, the company that performs the function of technical manager of the gas system in Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enagas.es\/content\/dam\/enagas\/es\/ficheros\/gestion-tecnica-sistema\/energy-data\/publicaciones\/boletin-estadistico-del-gas\/Bolet%C3%ADn%20Estad%C3%ADstico_septiembre22.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published its Statistical Bulletin for September 2022 (see PDF)<\/a>. According to this document, <strong>last month Spain imported 5,355 GWh of gas from Russia, an increase of almost 19%<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/14\/sanchez-ha-aumentado-las-importaciones-de-gas-de-rusia-tras-prohibir-extraerlo-en-espana\/\">compared to 4,505 GWh in August<\/a>. According to information from Enag\u00e1s, gas from Russia was 15.2% of the total imported by Spain, so that <strong>Russia was the third largest exporter of gas to Spain in September<\/strong>, only surpassed by Algeria and the United States. So far this year, Spain has imported 38,125 GWh of gas from Russia, 11.3% of the total, being the fourth largest exporter of gas to Spain behind the US, Algeria and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52419899459_b971c44ca4_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52419899459_c004b8f9b4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The origin of Spanish purchases of Russian gas in September 2022. Click on the image to see it enlarged (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enagas.es\/content\/dam\/enagas\/es\/ficheros\/gestion-tecnica-sistema\/energy-data\/publicaciones\/boletin-estadistico-del-gas\/Bolet%C3%ADn%20Estad%C3%ADstico_septiembre22.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enag\u00e1s<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>In 2021 that same government prohibited the extraction of natural gas in Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Not only <strong>is it objectionable that the Spanish government continues to finance Putin's armed aggression against Ukraine through the purchase of Russian gas<\/strong>, but also that these imports are carried out after the S\u00e1nchez government prohibited extracting natural gas in Spain. Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/06\/energia-la-ley-que-deberia-avergonzar-a-casi-todos-los-partidos-y-que-vox-quiere-cambiar\/\">in 2021 a law was approved to prohibit the exploitation of natural gas in Spain<\/a>, a law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congreso.es\/web\/guest\/busqueda-de-iniciativas?p_p_id=iniciativas&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_iniciativas_mode=mostrarDetalle&_iniciativas_legislatura=XIV&_iniciativas_id=121\/000019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was promoted by the coalition government<\/a> formed by the socialists of the PSOE and the communists of Podemos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/economia\/abci-gas-extraccion-espana-enf-202203201951_noticia.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These are deposits that could supply natural gas to Spain for 40 years<\/a> and thus reduce its dependence on foreign energy.<\/p>\n<p><big>There is a \"pro-Russian party\" in the government of Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is scandalous to see a government that acts so clearly against the interests of Spain and in favor of Russian interests<\/strong> when it comes to an important issue such as gas supply. But such a scandalous attitude is not accidental. Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/world\/129078-spain_podemos\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podemos was described as a \"pro-Russian party\" by the Russian pro-government newspaper Pravda.ru<\/a> Coincidentally, that same far-left party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/podemos-ucrania-otan-rusia.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has opposed sending weapons to Ukraine<\/a>. However, <strong>Podemos has not put even the slightest objection to the purchase of Russian gas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is time for the CNI, the Spanish intelligence service, to report on whether it has opened any investigation to detect <strong>possible influences of the Russian government among the Spanish political class<\/strong>. Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/13\/usa-points-out-russia-spent-300-million-to-influence-politicians-in-several-countries\/\">the Kremlin has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the favor of Western politicians<\/a>. It is time for the Spanish to know if some of our rulers are among the politicians bought by the Kremlin, because<strong> the facts point precisely in that direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lamoncloa_gob_es\/52411426690\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not necessary to be very bad thought to wonder if Pedro S\u00e1nchez serves the interests of Spain or Russia, in view of the things he is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10404],"tags":[17436,693,2721,7841,10731,16153,11462],"class_list":["post-48929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-economics","tag-enagas","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-podemos","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 07:21:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}