Europe in desperate search of alternatives to replace Russian energy | DW News

Russia provides roughly a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the European Union, more in some countries like Germany. The vast bulk of those exports to the EU, some 80-percent, flows through a network of pipelines on Ukrainian soil. The government in Kiew earns transit-fees from Russia and is still, in fact, despite the war. The toll of the conflict vastly outweighs those revenues, however and that's why Ukraine has been impatient for the EU to end gas-imports from Russia.
Europe is already desperately searching for natural-gas to replace Russian imports. On paper at least, the continent's largest gas-field beneath the Dutch city of Groningen would seem to be an option. But years of drilling there have had a devastating side-effect: Earthquakes, triggered by changes in pressure.

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