Reuters: Baltic states, in EU, fight reliance on Russia gas
Flat, featureless Pig's Back island off Lithuania is where the country hopes to moor a gas terminal in 2014 and escape total reliance on supplies from Russia, two decades after the Baltic states threw off Moscow's political rule.
The small bell-shaped island near the bustling port of Klaipeda is now home only to a solitary power pole, but is to become the mooring point of a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, spearheading a drive in the Baltics to gain energy independence with European Union support.
"It will help Lithuania reduce its dependence on a single gas supplier and allow access to international gas markets," said Rokas Masiulis, chief executive of the company in charge, Klaipedos Nafta. MORE
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