{"id":114612,"date":"2022-08-10T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114612"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:38:12","slug":"telegraph-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114612","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Rhine close to running dry in German energy nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Rhine river will become impassable for barges carrying coal, oil and gas later this week, in a devastating blow to factories upriver.<\/p>\n<p>Levels at Kaub, a key point along the waterway west of Frankfurt, are predicted to fall to below 40cm on Friday, according to the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration.<\/p>\n<p>At that chokepoint, the river becomes effectively impassable for many barges, which use the Rhine to move a range of goods including coal, oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Water levels will then fall further to 37cm on Saturday, officials warned.<\/p>\n<p>The river runs from Switzerland through France and Germany to the Netherlands, where it joins the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/08\/10\/rhine-become-impassable-friday-german-energy-nightmare-becomes\/\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f1e9;&#x1f1ea;The Rhine is close to running dry in a German energy nightmare. <\/p>\n<p>Rhine water levels at Kaub will soon make it impassable for barges carrying coal and gas imports<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Thread?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Thread<\/a> &#x1f447;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxifmOBgJB\">https:\/\/t.co\/zxifmOBgJB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oa0cSNcDMu\">pic.twitter.com\/Oa0cSNcDMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TelegraphWorld\/status\/1557381033863122944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Rhine river will become impassable for barges carrying coal, oil and gas later this week, in a devastating blow to factories upriver. Levels at Kaub, a key point along the waterway west of Frankfurt, are predicted to fall to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=114612\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,683,149,140,478,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-weather","category-ecology","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-germany","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114616,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114612\/revisions\/114616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}