Japan pleads for more energy supply from Russia

[OhioChick]

Source: Reuters

Sat Mar 12

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Japan has asked Russia to increase energy supplies after a nuclear power station was damaged by a massive earthquake and Moscow is ready to help, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said Saturday.

At a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Sechin said Russia could increase liquefied natural gas supply by 150,000 metric tons, while Russia's Mechel and SUEK will look into the possibility of raising coal supply by 3 to 4 million metric tons.

"Japan is our neighbor, our friendly neighbor, and despite different problems we have to be reliable partners," Putin said in the meeting broadcast on state television.

Sechin, Russia's top energy official, said Japan has asked Russia's state-controlled gas company Gazprom for more supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110312/wl_nm/us_japan_quake_russia

[AtheistCrusader]

1. This is the alternative to Nuclear Power. More fossil fuels.

At least for the forseeable future.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. Yeah, Nuclear got another huge black eye...

So, we will just continue destroying the entire planet until China discovers advancements in solar & battery technology that they can sell to the world. It sure as hell won't be the USA that discovers the new energy technologies of the future because the Republicans think the most pressing problems are preventing women from having control over their own bodies, denying equal rights to homosexuals & cutting spending...Which is cutting investemnts into the exact technology we need & that could create the new jobs we need here in the USA.

Oh well.