Macron announces "Turn off your lights" as it becomes clear Russia will not continue providing gas:
"French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country’s people Thursday to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting alternatives, having public lights switched off at night and engaging in a period of nationwide energy “sobriety.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions have aggravated other factors driving up prices for energy and others goods. With no end in sight for the Ukraine war, Macron said, the French should brace themselves for costs to remain high.
“This war will continue,” he said in a televised interview marking France’s national holiday, Bastille Day. “The summer, early autumn will be very hard.”"
#France #EU #EnergyCrisis
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/macron-turn-out-the-lights-brace-for-russian-gas-cutoff/
"French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country’s people Thursday to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting alternatives, having public lights switched off at night and engaging in a period of nationwide energy “sobriety.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions have aggravated other factors driving up prices for energy and others goods. With no end in sight for the Ukraine war, Macron said, the French should brace themselves for costs to remain high.
“This war will continue,” he said in a televised interview marking France’s national holiday, Bastille Day. “The summer, early autumn will be very hard.”"
#France #EU #EnergyCrisis
https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/macron-turn-out-the-lights-brace-for-russian-gas-cutoff/
New York Post
Macron: Turn out the lights, brace for Russian gas cutoff
French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country’s people Thursday to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas
tl;dr: European Commission predicts yield of wheat/barley/corn will be down 2.5% YoY due to drought, "experts" rush to blame climate change:
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Europe is staring into one of its driest summers in living memory.
The drought has already crimped production of hydroelectric power and food, adding to market pressure from the war in Ukraine. Many city authorities have asked residents to cut back their use of drinking water.
With global food flows already squeezed, the drought has Europe’s farmers spooked. [IAF: perhaps not the word I would use for it.] Hungary's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that as of the beginning of the month it had received 8,413 drought damage notifications covering 322,000 hectares in 2022, three times the area of any previous first half of the year.
#EU #wheat #drought
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-temperature-heat-wave-drought/?amp;amp
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Europe is staring into one of its driest summers in living memory.
The drought has already crimped production of hydroelectric power and food, adding to market pressure from the war in Ukraine. Many city authorities have asked residents to cut back their use of drinking water.
With global food flows already squeezed, the drought has Europe’s farmers spooked. [IAF: perhaps not the word I would use for it.] Hungary's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that as of the beginning of the month it had received 8,413 drought damage notifications covering 322,000 hectares in 2022, three times the area of any previous first half of the year.
#EU #wheat #drought
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-temperature-heat-wave-drought/?amp;amp
POLITICO
Europe’s big dry
An ‘unprecedented’ drought grips much of the Continent with worse to come.
Finland: grocery stores may close to conserve power
Grocery stores in Finland could have to take turns closing for hours at a time to reduce their energy usage this winter, the country’s grid operator told news outlet YLE on Sunday. With fuel shortages expected, Finnish households will also be told to lower their consumption.
According to the grid operator, Finland’s roughly 2,800 food stores will need to come to arrangements with each other over who will close and who will stay open if power is rationed in a particular area. This kind of agreement is especially important in rural areas to ensure that all the outlets in one town or village don’t end up shutting at the same time, YLE noted.
#finland #eu #EnergyCrisis
https://www.rt.com/news/559952-finland-close-stores-power/
Grocery stores in Finland could have to take turns closing for hours at a time to reduce their energy usage this winter, the country’s grid operator told news outlet YLE on Sunday. With fuel shortages expected, Finnish households will also be told to lower their consumption.
According to the grid operator, Finland’s roughly 2,800 food stores will need to come to arrangements with each other over who will close and who will stay open if power is rationed in a particular area. This kind of agreement is especially important in rural areas to ensure that all the outlets in one town or village don’t end up shutting at the same time, YLE noted.
#finland #eu #EnergyCrisis
https://www.rt.com/news/559952-finland-close-stores-power/
RT
EU country may close stores to conserve power
Grocery stores in Finland may have to take turns closing to avoid blackouts this winter, Finnish news outlet YLE has reported
(see note below:)
German food banks suffer as former donors forced to become recipients
“People who used to be on the other side donating and helping us are now coming and asking for help," says Petra Lehmann, who heads the Heimatstern association. "We have lots of families now where it's impossible from one income to feed the family because it's so expensive."
This is also changing people's behaviors. "We buy more jars of cheap food," says Sertap. "It may be chicken. It could be fish, beans because they are more suitable for us."
Pensioner Katrin Obermeier has started rationing her food: "I'm using foods longer, especially past the expiration date because it is still well preserved."
[IceAgeFarmer note: this is true BUT remember that removal of date markings by end of 2022 was planned in the 2018 EU Farm to Fork agenda!! We are following the globalist food crisis scripts to a T!!]
#eu #Germany #FoodPrices
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-08-03/German-food-banks-suffer-as-former-donors-forced-to-become-recipients-1caW7UfseWI/index.html
German food banks suffer as former donors forced to become recipients
“People who used to be on the other side donating and helping us are now coming and asking for help," says Petra Lehmann, who heads the Heimatstern association. "We have lots of families now where it's impossible from one income to feed the family because it's so expensive."
This is also changing people's behaviors. "We buy more jars of cheap food," says Sertap. "It may be chicken. It could be fish, beans because they are more suitable for us."
Pensioner Katrin Obermeier has started rationing her food: "I'm using foods longer, especially past the expiration date because it is still well preserved."
[IceAgeFarmer note: this is true BUT remember that removal of date markings by end of 2022 was planned in the 2018 EU Farm to Fork agenda!! We are following the globalist food crisis scripts to a T!!]
#eu #Germany #FoodPrices
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-08-03/German-food-banks-suffer-as-former-donors-forced-to-become-recipients-1caW7UfseWI/index.html
Cgtn
German food banks suffer as former donors forced to become recipients
'People who used to donate are now coming and asking for help,' says food bank chief.
Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11,200 farms (20% of their farms) to meet climate goals
Hostile takeover of food supply accelerates - complete enslavement of humanity - must be stopped
#eu
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/dutch-farmers-11200
Hostile takeover of food supply accelerates - complete enslavement of humanity - must be stopped
#eu
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/dutch-farmers-11200
The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden
Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11 200 farms to meet climate goals
The farmers are not happy about it.
France: milk shortages feared
The president of the largest farmers' union in France has warned that a shortage of feedstock caused by severe drought may lead to a milk shortage.
"I think that in the coming months, we will have a shortage of milk in France. To make milk, you need fodder, mainly alfalfa and corn, which have grown little this year.”
#WarOnDairy #France #eu
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/french-farmers-union-official-warns-milk-shortage
The president of the largest farmers' union in France has warned that a shortage of feedstock caused by severe drought may lead to a milk shortage.
"I think that in the coming months, we will have a shortage of milk in France. To make milk, you need fodder, mainly alfalfa and corn, which have grown little this year.”
#WarOnDairy #France #eu
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/french-farmers-union-official-warns-milk-shortage
Zerohedge
Zerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
The losses are catastrophic in every direction. Italy: extreme drought
Massimo Saronni walks across his rice field, each step a loud crunch. This field should be flooded with water, flourishing with four-foot emerald green blades and golden rice panicles. Instead, the plants have taken on a yellow-brown tinge and the soil has hardened from lack of rain. Small patches of survivors dot the field, but they only reach his ankle.
“These crops are seriously damaged. They haven’t had water, so they’re not going to make it,” says Saronni, who has worked as a rice farmer for over 30 years. He cultivates different rice varieties, including carnaroli, a high-starch rice prized in Italian cuisine for the creamy risotto it makes.
Northern Italy is suffering from spiking temperatures and its worst drought in more than 70 years.
Italy is the biggest producer of rice in the European Union—accounting for over half of its total production—and importers of Italian rice will surely feel the pinch.
#eu #rice #italy #FoodPrices
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/extreme-drought-threatens-italy-rice-crops-and-its-beloved-risotto
Massimo Saronni walks across his rice field, each step a loud crunch. This field should be flooded with water, flourishing with four-foot emerald green blades and golden rice panicles. Instead, the plants have taken on a yellow-brown tinge and the soil has hardened from lack of rain. Small patches of survivors dot the field, but they only reach his ankle.
“These crops are seriously damaged. They haven’t had water, so they’re not going to make it,” says Saronni, who has worked as a rice farmer for over 30 years. He cultivates different rice varieties, including carnaroli, a high-starch rice prized in Italian cuisine for the creamy risotto it makes.
Northern Italy is suffering from spiking temperatures and its worst drought in more than 70 years.
Italy is the biggest producer of rice in the European Union—accounting for over half of its total production—and importers of Italian rice will surely feel the pinch.
#eu #rice #italy #FoodPrices
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/extreme-drought-threatens-italy-rice-crops-and-its-beloved-risotto
Environment
Extreme drought threatens Italy’s rice crops—and its beloved risotto
Prized rice varieties used for risotto are grown in northern Italy’s normally flooded paddies, but record heat and drought are causing devastation and consternation.
Majority of fertilizer plants remain offline in Europe — and no sign of relief for gas prices.
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Fertilizer
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Fertilizer
POLAND: People are sleeping in their car just to stay in line for coal to heat their homes.
We can joke, "Thanks a lot Greta" but this is a serious situation and the complete collapse of Europe. I can't believe that people aren't more upset with EU leadership at the self-imposed, utter destruction of energy supply, food supply, economy, livelihoods. Perhaps once more people FEEL the pain this winter, we enter Klaus Schwab's "angrier world..."
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Poland
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-where-coal-is-king-homeowners-queue-days-buy-fuel-2022-08-27/
We can joke, "Thanks a lot Greta" but this is a serious situation and the complete collapse of Europe. I can't believe that people aren't more upset with EU leadership at the self-imposed, utter destruction of energy supply, food supply, economy, livelihoods. Perhaps once more people FEEL the pain this winter, we enter Klaus Schwab's "angrier world..."
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Poland
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-where-coal-is-king-homeowners-queue-days-buy-fuel-2022-08-27/
Reuters
In Poland, where coal is king, homeowners queue for days to buy fuel
In Poland's late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel in queues reminiscent of communist times.
Germany: 50% crop loss due to drought in some regions
Up to half of the crops in parts of the German state of Baden-Württemberg are likely to be lost due to drought, farmers in the region have claimed, with problems to do with the prices of fuel, fertiliser, and pesticides connected to the green agenda and war in Ukraine also reportedly causing problems for those in the region
The serious lack of rainfall has led farmers to fear that the likes of maize, sugar beet, potato, and soybean crops could see losses of up to 50%.
#Germany #EU #drought
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/19/global-food-crisis-50-per-cent-crop-loss-likely-due-to-drought-german-farmers-say/
Up to half of the crops in parts of the German state of Baden-Württemberg are likely to be lost due to drought, farmers in the region have claimed, with problems to do with the prices of fuel, fertiliser, and pesticides connected to the green agenda and war in Ukraine also reportedly causing problems for those in the region
The serious lack of rainfall has led farmers to fear that the likes of maize, sugar beet, potato, and soybean crops could see losses of up to 50%.
#Germany #EU #drought
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/19/global-food-crisis-50-per-cent-crop-loss-likely-due-to-drought-german-farmers-say/
Breitbart
Food Crisis: 50 Per Cent Crop Loss Likely Due to Drought - Farmers
Crop losses of up to 50 per cent are now expected in parts of Germany due to drought, farmers in affected regions have claimed.
Among the industrial production shutting down across Europe: everything needed to grow food.
See this map for a sense of how widespread - and drastic - the shutdowns of fertilizer production.
What has been put in motion cannot now he stopped - Famine ahead. Prepare.
#eu #fertilizer
See this map for a sense of how widespread - and drastic - the shutdowns of fertilizer production.
What has been put in motion cannot now he stopped - Famine ahead. Prepare.
#eu #fertilizer
France bracing for ‘catastrophic’ food shortages and price hikes following drought, farmers and unions warn
After four severe heatwaves this year record high temperatures have wreaked havoc on crops and could have a devastating impact on the availability of food across the rest of Europe.
France is the leading European exporter of potatoes with more than two million tonnes of the crop being exported each year.
Food producers say nearly 1.5 million tonnes of potato crops could be lost due to the heatwave — a drop of 20 per cent.
Geoffroy d’Evry, a farmer in the Oise region and president of potato-growers’ union UNPT, said: “We have never experienced a situation like this.
“We were preparing to spend the winter without heating or electricity, and now we discover that there may not even be potatoes for dinner?” [Welcome to the Great Reset — this is why we prepared.]
The Legumes de France federation has also estimated losses of between 25 and 35 per cent of the production and yield of vegetables.
#France #EU #FoodShortage
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/france-bracing-catastrophic-food-shortages-following-drought-farmers-and-unions-warn
After four severe heatwaves this year record high temperatures have wreaked havoc on crops and could have a devastating impact on the availability of food across the rest of Europe.
France is the leading European exporter of potatoes with more than two million tonnes of the crop being exported each year.
Food producers say nearly 1.5 million tonnes of potato crops could be lost due to the heatwave — a drop of 20 per cent.
Geoffroy d’Evry, a farmer in the Oise region and president of potato-growers’ union UNPT, said: “We have never experienced a situation like this.
“We were preparing to spend the winter without heating or electricity, and now we discover that there may not even be potatoes for dinner?” [Welcome to the Great Reset — this is why we prepared.]
The Legumes de France federation has also estimated losses of between 25 and 35 per cent of the production and yield of vegetables.
#France #EU #FoodShortage
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/france-bracing-catastrophic-food-shortages-following-drought-farmers-and-unions-warn
Morning Star
France bracing for ‘catastrophic’ food shortages following drought,
by Roger Mckenzie at the Fete de l'Humanité
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis
Governments are using every tool in their kits to curb the rising inflation rates, there’s far less they can do about the coming food shortage.
"Countries can't mandate fertilizer production because they are so worried about having enough natural gas to heat people's homes," John Harpole, a natural gas broker for the fertilizer sector told Newsweek. "They are having to choose between future food production and heat and they are going to choose heat."
The problem with an energy crisis is that it’s actually an everything crisis. In a world where virtually every industry relies on energy in some form, runaway inflation is an inevitability.
[ ... I did mention this exactly a year ago ... ]
#EU #FoodShortage #EnergyCrisis
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Natural-Gas-Shortage-Could-Trigger-A-Food-Crisis.html
Governments are using every tool in their kits to curb the rising inflation rates, there’s far less they can do about the coming food shortage.
"Countries can't mandate fertilizer production because they are so worried about having enough natural gas to heat people's homes," John Harpole, a natural gas broker for the fertilizer sector told Newsweek. "They are having to choose between future food production and heat and they are going to choose heat."
The problem with an energy crisis is that it’s actually an everything crisis. In a world where virtually every industry relies on energy in some form, runaway inflation is an inevitability.
[ ... I did mention this exactly a year ago ... ]
#EU #FoodShortage #EnergyCrisis
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Natural-Gas-Shortage-Could-Trigger-A-Food-Crisis.html
Oil Price
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis
The natural gas crisis in Europe could trigger a global food crisis as countries are forced to choose between heating homes and producing food
France to reap worst corn harvest in decades
French farmers are harvesting their smallest corn crop in more than three decades, following the worst drought in at least 500 years that has hit the continent.
The smaller crops in France, which is one of Europe’s agricultural heavyweights, could drive soaring food prices even higher. Fields in Germany and Romania, other key EU producers, have also suffered from drought.
(Cue the media blaming climate change and calls for zero carbon)
#eu #france #corn #wheat
https://www.rt.com/business/562729-france-bad-corn-harvest/
French farmers are harvesting their smallest corn crop in more than three decades, following the worst drought in at least 500 years that has hit the continent.
The smaller crops in France, which is one of Europe’s agricultural heavyweights, could drive soaring food prices even higher. Fields in Germany and Romania, other key EU producers, have also suffered from drought.
(Cue the media blaming climate change and calls for zero carbon)
#eu #france #corn #wheat
https://www.rt.com/business/562729-france-bad-corn-harvest/
RT
France to reap worst corn harvest in decades – Bloomberg
France’s corn crop could hit its lowest level in more than 30 years, finance ministry reports, according to Bloomberg
French refinery strikes takes half of the nation’s refining capacity offline - forcing France’s largest sugar maker, Tereos, to curtail production
Diesel and petrol stations in France are running out of fuel, according to an industry union, as a refining strike takes its toll. The strike, which among others, took Total’s 240,000 bpd Gonfreville refinery offline as well as a couple of Exxon’s, was expected to conclude on Thursday…but Friday, reports came in that strikes were disrupting Total’s oil products refining and delivery for a fourth day — 60% of the nation’s total refining capacity.
“There is no need to rush to the station (for gas),” TotalEnergies said on Friday. Despite those affirmations, France’s largest sugar maker, Tereos, said it had to curtail production somewhat at some of its factories after Total advised it that it would not be able to supply it with any more diesel until the end of the week.
France was already battling a shortage of refined products, with Russia’s exports to Europe “falling” in recent months.
[ see previous post on biogas . . . ]
source: oilprice.com
#EnergyCrisis #France #EU
Diesel and petrol stations in France are running out of fuel, according to an industry union, as a refining strike takes its toll. The strike, which among others, took Total’s 240,000 bpd Gonfreville refinery offline as well as a couple of Exxon’s, was expected to conclude on Thursday…but Friday, reports came in that strikes were disrupting Total’s oil products refining and delivery for a fourth day — 60% of the nation’s total refining capacity.
“There is no need to rush to the station (for gas),” TotalEnergies said on Friday. Despite those affirmations, France’s largest sugar maker, Tereos, said it had to curtail production somewhat at some of its factories after Total advised it that it would not be able to supply it with any more diesel until the end of the week.
France was already battling a shortage of refined products, with Russia’s exports to Europe “falling” in recent months.
[ see previous post on biogas . . . ]
source: oilprice.com
#EnergyCrisis #France #EU
Vegetable/legume company HAK STOPS production for 6 weeks starting 2023. Energy prices make it infeasible to produce, says the market leader best known for the glass jars of applesauce, peas and brown beans.
"It is not only the high price, but also the uncertainty, says director Timo Hoogeboom. "Today it is two euros for a cubic meter of gas, it used to be three euros. We don't know what it will be in January or February. So to be on the safe side, we will remain closed."
If it is no longer possible to pass on the higher energy prices to consumers, the availability of products may ultimately also be compromised. "If companies have to sell below cost for months, things go wrong." He does not expect any empty shelves for HAK for the time being. "But I don't rule it out for the chain, especially in January, February and March." A temporary energy ceiling for companies could help, the HAK director thinks.
"Companies will first look at how they can absorb the costs themselves, but if that is no longer possible, they will have to scale down," confirms food economist Morren. "I expect this to happen more widely."
source: https://nos.nl/l/2446920
- iceagefarmer
#EnergyCrisis #FoodWars #EU
"It is not only the high price, but also the uncertainty, says director Timo Hoogeboom. "Today it is two euros for a cubic meter of gas, it used to be three euros. We don't know what it will be in January or February. So to be on the safe side, we will remain closed."
If it is no longer possible to pass on the higher energy prices to consumers, the availability of products may ultimately also be compromised. "If companies have to sell below cost for months, things go wrong." He does not expect any empty shelves for HAK for the time being. "But I don't rule it out for the chain, especially in January, February and March." A temporary energy ceiling for companies could help, the HAK director thinks.
"Companies will first look at how they can absorb the costs themselves, but if that is no longer possible, they will have to scale down," confirms food economist Morren. "I expect this to happen more widely."
source: https://nos.nl/l/2446920
- iceagefarmer
#EnergyCrisis #FoodWars #EU
nos.nl
HAK stopt tijdelijk productie vanwege energiekosten, appelmoes en doperwten duurder
De producten zullen wel in de schappen liggen, maar voor een hogere prijs, verwacht het bedrijf.
Another pipeline damaged — “Accidental” — just like all those food processing plants and refining facilities.
#eu #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/druzhba-poland-says-leak-detected-on-russian-oil-pipeline-accidental.html
#eu #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/druzhba-poland-says-leak-detected-on-russian-oil-pipeline-accidental.html
CNBC
Leak detected on another Russian pipeline connecting to Europe, but Poland says it looks accidental
The cause of the incident not yet known, but the Polish government said the damage caused was probably accidental.
EU: energy CEO reveals Europe experiencing regional shortages of diesel, heating oil, jet fuel.
#eu #EnergyCrisis #AbsoluteZero
#eu #EnergyCrisis #AbsoluteZero
Germany Backstops Commodity Traders as War Drives Resource Dash
[ IAF: This is basically akin to nationalizing the entire commodities market — so long free market as we dash towards #AbsoluteZero carbon agenda! ]
Germany is offering loan guarantees to commodity trading houses to buy energy and key metals, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparks a global scramble for resource security.
Trafigura Group, the world’s biggest trader of copper, has already agreed to supply German customers with non-Russian metals for the next five years, helped by $800 million in bank credit that’s ultimately guaranteed by the German government. The trading house is now discussing a similar deal for liquefied natural gas, according to people familiar with the situation, and commodity bankers are pitching more deals that would have state guarantees to other traders. [Yeah, I’m sure the bankers would love to pitch many deals with all risk pushed to sovereign! ]
- iceagefarmer
src: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/germany-backstops-traders-in-war-driven-dash-for-commodities?leadSource=uverify%20wall
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Germany
[ IAF: This is basically akin to nationalizing the entire commodities market — so long free market as we dash towards #AbsoluteZero carbon agenda! ]
Germany is offering loan guarantees to commodity trading houses to buy energy and key metals, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparks a global scramble for resource security.
Trafigura Group, the world’s biggest trader of copper, has already agreed to supply German customers with non-Russian metals for the next five years, helped by $800 million in bank credit that’s ultimately guaranteed by the German government. The trading house is now discussing a similar deal for liquefied natural gas, according to people familiar with the situation, and commodity bankers are pitching more deals that would have state guarantees to other traders. [Yeah, I’m sure the bankers would love to pitch many deals with all risk pushed to sovereign! ]
- iceagefarmer
src: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/germany-backstops-traders-in-war-driven-dash-for-commodities?leadSource=uverify%20wall
#EnergyCrisis #EU #Germany
Bloomberg.com
Germany Backstops Commodity Traders as War Drives Resource Dash
Germany is offering loan guarantees to commodity trading houses to buy energy and key metals, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparks a global scramble for resource security.
Spain's Largest Hydro-Power Plants To Halt Operations As Drought Worsens
#water #EnergyCrisis #eu
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/drought-forces-one-of-spain-s-largest-hydro-power-plants-to-halt-1.1842645
#water #EnergyCrisis #eu
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/drought-forces-one-of-spain-s-largest-hydro-power-plants-to-halt-1.1842645
BNN
Drought Forces One of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants to Halt
Spanish utility Endesa SA is set to shut down output at the country’s fifth-largest hydropower plant after drought-like conditions caused reservoir levels to fall below the minimum needed to keep it running.