{"id":946160,"date":"2026-05-08T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946160\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:40:16","slug":"eu-keeping-russias-arctic-lng-project-alive-despite-year-end-import-ban-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/946160\/","title":{"rendered":"EU keeping Russia\u2019s Arctic LNG project \u2018alive\u2019, despite year-end import ban \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records\u00a0of Russian\u00a0liquefied natural gas\u00a0from the <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/41688\/why-did-gas-prices-suddenly-spike\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"41688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yamal LNG project in\u00a0Siberia<\/a> recently reached the EU, despite its promises, now set down in law, to ban Russian fossil-fuel imports by the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The EU received\u00a091 cargoes\u00a0from Yamal between January and April, equivalent to\u00a098 percent\u00a0of all Yamal LNG exports worth an estimated \u20ac3.8bn, according to\u00a0new analysis of\u00a0Kpler\u00a0data published\u00a0on Friday (8 May)\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urgewald.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urgewald,\u00a0a\u00a0German environmental NGO<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU\u2019s ban on LNG imports via short-term contracts is a step forward, but\u00a0long term\u00a0contracts\u00a0remain\u00a0the core problem,\u201d said\u00a0Sebastian R\u00f6tters, sanctions campaigner at\u00a0Urgewald, who argued that\u00a0\u201cEurope keeps Russia\u2019s Arctic LNG business alive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as these exist, Europe will continue sending money to a Russian gas project that doesn\u2019t have a lucrative future without the EU,\u201d\u00a0he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China received just two cargoes in January, but none in the last three months.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records\u00a0of Russian\u00a0liquefied natural gas\u00a0from the Yamal LNG project in\u00a0Siberia recently reached the EU, despite its promises, now set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[217083,218481,253089,239339,253087,239337,218479,332,253088,239338,218480],"class_list":{"0":"post-946160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-typedefinedterm","9":"tag-identifier4308","10":"tag-identifier4413","11":"tag-identifier4420","12":"tag-namearctic","13":"tag-nameenergy","14":"tag-namerussia","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-termcodearctic","17":"tag-termcodeenergy","18":"tag-termcoderussia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116539243256187642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}