The potential outage of both the EstLink 1 and EstLink 2 Finnish-Estonian undersea power cables would not yet have caused serious problems for Estonia’s electricity supply, said Kalle Kilk, CEO of the Estonian transmission system operator (TSO) Elering.
Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat reported that if the Finnish authorities had not stopped the oil tanker Eagle S, which already damaged the EstLink 2 cable, earlier this week, the ship could have also damaged EstLink 1 and the Balticconnector gas pipeline as well.
Maritime law expert Alexander Lott noted that it’s entirely plausible that had the Eagle S continued on its course, it could have damaged those two connections as well as any other cables in its path.
“This ship was coming from the direction of St.Petersburg, heading west, dragging an anchor over 100 kilometers behind it,” he explained.
Read more: ERR.EE
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