Belgian gas stations near the border with France have seen a 15-20% increase in demand in recent days due to strike action at French refineries and oil depots.
This situation is not a cause for concern as far as Belgium’s supply is concerned, Olivier Neyrink, the technical director of Brafco, the fuel traders’ federation, told the Belgian news agency Belga. “There are reserves. As long as the mobilization continues in France, we are ready,” he added.
Many French gas stations have been experiencing supply problems for days due to the strike at the refineries and fuel depots of TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil. The strikers are demanding wage increases, against the background of inflation and record profits of oil companies. The problem affects a little over 20% of gas stations but is more intense in the north of the country.
Neyrink assured that the symbolic blockade of two TotalEnergies facilities in Belgium this weekend did not cause supply problems. From Saturday morning until midday Sunday, hundreds of Code Rouge activists blocked the facility, in an act of “civil disobedience” aimed at demonstrating the fossil fuel industry’s responsibility for climate change and social crisis.
Source: News Beast
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