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Russia is burning off millions of pounds’ worth of gas every day near to its border with Europe, causing waste and environmental damage as the continent’s energy costs soar thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
Gas that would previously have been exported to Germany is being burnt rather than tapped off or stored, according to experts who have studied a Russian facility near the border with Finland
They say the liquified natural gas plant at Portovaya, northwest of St Petersburg, is burning an estimated $10m (£8.4m) worth of gas every day, which comes as energy costs have spiked due to the war in Ukraine
Scientists are alarmed about the levels of soot and carbon dioxide the burning is generating, which they said could accelerate the melting of Arctic ice
The environmental and financial costs are rising daily as the flare from the Portovaya plant releases the equivalent of 9k tonnes of carbon dioxide a day.

Most people in the UK have a secondary carbon footprint of between 2 and 10 tonnes of CO2 per year
While it is usual for gas or oil facilities to burn off some of their excess fuel for safety or technical reasons, the analysis by Rystad Energy indicates that far larger amounts — about 4.34 million cubic metres of gas — are being “flared” at the Russian plant every day
Finnish citizens over the border noticed something was afoot when they saw a large flame on the horizon this summer.

Since June researchers have also noted a significant increase in heat emanating from the facility
Russia’s state-owned company Gazprom, which runs Nord Stream 1 and also owns the plant at Portovaya, has permanently lowered the pipeline’s capacity to 20% this summer in the wake of European Union sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Germany and other countries have vowed to wean themselves off Russian gas totally by 2024.

But in the meantime, EU sanctions have ordered governments and other public bodies to halt existing contracts with Russian companies by October 10
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