Yes, it’s painful as an environmentalist to see the infrastructure burning, but if it had reached its destination then it would have been burned just the same. Probably more cleanly than this mess, and the fine soot particles contribute more to global heating than ‘complete combustion’, but the carbon would still have been released to atmosphere. Doing it this way will at least halt the flow for a good long while, which has real environmental benefits.

I do hope the wind isn’t blowing that shit over our friends in Estonia and Finland; that stuff looks like cancer.