Work on controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to resume
The gas pipeline, which will link Russia to Germany, will resume on December 5
WORK on the controversial German-RussianNord Stream 2 gas pipeline is to continue in December after a one-year break, a company spokesperson confirmed to dpa on Saturday.
Construction work on the natural gas pipeline, which will link Russia to Germany, will resume on December 5, German broadcaster NDR 1 Radio MV earlier reported, citing an announcement by the Baltic Sea Waterways and Shipping Office in Stralsund.
The US government wants to prevent the pipeline being completed.
In December 2019, construction work on the Danish island of Bornholm was stopped abruptly because two Swiss laying vessels had ceased their work under the pressure of sanctions from the US.
The same month the US passed the PEESA act, which provides a 30-day draw-down period for most companies determined to be conducting sanctionable activity on the pipeline.
Construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is nearly complete. It would double Russian deliveries of natural gas via a Baltic Sea route to Germany, Europe’s largest economy.
Opponents of the pipeline, including the US, Poland and Ukraine, say the pipeline will give Russia an economic stranglehold over Germany, while the German government says it will create a direct and secure energy supply.
Nord Stream 2 duplicates not only an existing pipeline under the Baltic, Nord Stream 1, but also pipelines from Russia running through Ukraine and Belarus and on into Eastern Europe.
Nord Stream 2 duplicates not only an existing pipeline under the Baltic, Nord Stream 1, but also pipelines from Russia running through Ukraine and Belarus and on into Eastern Europe.
With the completion of Nord Stream 2, almost all of Europe’s natural gas from Russia would arrive through pipelines under the Baltic Sea or through another new underwater pipeline, TurkStream, under the Black Sea, to the south.
The 746-mile Nord Stream 2 pipeline stretches under the Baltic Sea from the Russian coast near St. Petersburg to Germany.