<div dir="ltr">Well, it's just a bit premature to suspect there is NO gas plant there at all, basing conclusions on Google Maps alone. How accurate do you think Google Maps are in the area of Strilkove? For example, while Google Maps is excellent in the U.S., until very recently it was terrible in many places abroad. I remember very recently L'viv itself was very badly mapped and the quality of images was substandard. <br>
<br>So, I guess that makes me a bit skeptical of Google Maps as a tool in this instance. <br><br>Did you do a general search for the gas plant? For example there is this information about a natural gas reserves at Strilkove: <br>
<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">Запаси </span><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="Природний газ" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">газу</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> початкові видобувні категорій А+В+С</span><sub style="line-height:1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">1</sub><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> — 3085 млн. м³. Родовище перебуває на стадії стабільно падаючого видобутку з постійним фондом експлуатаційних свердловин. Всього видобуто 1662 млн. м³ </span><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="Природний газ" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px">газу</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px"> (53,8% від початкових запасів). Обсяг відбору газу залежить від тиску в газопроводі Стрілка-Джанкой-Сімферополь.</span><br>
<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5">https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Стрілкове_газове_родовище</a><br>
<br>I'm no expert on gas and its infrastructure, to be sure, but neither are you, I believe. Why do you think the infrastructure MUST be obvious? Maybe you simply did not locate it or where looking in the wrong place? I mean, there are a number of possibilities here, so it just seems a bit paranoid to raise such questions and doubt before doing a thorough check. It just becomes a distraction. Don't you think that the Ukrainian journalists are capable of checking such elementary facts? <br>
<br>That's all, no ruckus, rumpus or otherwise. Let's just take care with raising such questions, because it creates unnecessary noise. A few more strokes of keyboard could void the need to raise the question in the first place. <br>
<br>I guess my reaction is based on the fact that there is WAY too much information these days and I am trying to avoid that which is useless or unnecessary. That's why EACH OF US should exercise utmost judgment and care in our communications. <br>
<br>Anyway, no bad feelings. <br><br>Vsioho dobroho,<br>Bohdan.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Max Pyziur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pyz@brama.com" target="_blank">pyz@brama.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Bohdan Pechenyak wrote:<br>
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Are you KIDDING me? Google maps is your "tool", and your inability to come up with "anything that looks like" what you are looking for - evidence for lack<br>
thereof? Give me a break, PLEASE... <br>
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What's the rumpus?<br>
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Yeah, Google Maps. The satelitte imagery varies, but it's relatively easy to pick out infrastructure.<br>
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You reminded me that there is another tool - Wikimapia - that uses Google's satellite imagery and then uses its own overlays to describe the landscape. In the case of Strilkove, it's a bunch of camping grounds and resorts (some of them labelled in German, oddly). I can't find anything that looks like a gas plant.<br>
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And since, the news source is from Ukraine, I'd like to know if it is authentic.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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