At Cop 26 all countries agreed to make changes to phase out fossils fuel and to say no to gas and oil, but Putin with his invasion in Ukraine has put a stop to this. simply saying No to Russian Gas is not a big problem in the the UK and USA due to only using a small amount of Russian gas however some of Europe countries are using a huge amount of gas there is a significant problem. The EU gets roughly 40% of its gas from Russia: According to figure from research group Transport & Environment, this dependence costs around $118m a day.
We can’t stop it immediately because we need to power to drive our industry. But paying for all this gas and oil is powering Russia’s army
So what are the alternatives.
Going Totally green much, much faster than planned by building more wind turbines and nuclear power stations. - a good idea but very slow -it will still take years to complete even at a much accelerated pace.
Buying the oil and gas from elsewhere - and alternative but the idea of the pipeline was to speed up the delivery process rather than shipping the gas in boats which isn’t really practical.
Looking for oil and gas in the North Sea, where the UK knows there is a an oilfield - This still will take time and money and goes against climate change policies.
Fracking - really frowned upon because of the damage it may cause.
simply as people to use less thus reducing our reliance on Gas. Now in the UK this is possible but not in Europe because of their heavy reliance.
If we continue to upset Putin with sanctions he might just cut off the gas and Europe will be plunged into a state of little or no power.
Gas and Oil are used for other things, not just making power but the chemical industry is very reliant on Oil for its products. We are also seeing non Russian oil companies leaving the Russian oil cartels, like Shell and BP.