Comments by "Tomas Vrabec" (@tomasvrabec1845) on "Nord Stream: Fourth leak found as Russia and West trade blame over alleged sabotage of gas pipeline" video.

They can't... That a gas well... And a gas wells cannot be switched off. The litteralt do not have any Taps to turn of... It a constant stream of gas under heavy pressure and comes straight from the underground into the pipe. They can only slow it down, and they did... By 80/90 percent which is pretty much the max. What is comming out of the damaged pipe is less far less than it would be normally and yet it's a horrendously large amount. ... But No, Russia can not just turn it of... Because they them selves have no way to do it. It is the same reason why gas wells burn natural gas from their chimneys once their storage is full... We just do not have a way to shut them down.
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@romanyarkov8426 that's true and it's something mentioned regarding the leak too (burn it at the surface) but that is if they can fully afford it too. The point is that there is only a very limited number of countries that would have any benefit all together by doing this and the most beneficial whilst least risk would be Russia. There are claims for US but as it stands it would benefit them little (only a push for Germany) whilst it would endangered them massively as if found out, it would be the end of NATO.
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