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Construction of the German-Russian Baltic Sea Nord Stream 2 pipeline will continue in December after a year of interruption. This was confirmed by a spokesperson for the consortium. The radio station NDR 1 Radio MV had previously reported on this.
According to information from the station, the Baltic Sea Inland Navigation and Waterways Office in Stralsund has announced to the skippers that there will be construction works south of the Adlergrund area starting next Saturday. This is where the two ends of the pipes meet, leaving from the Lubmin landing station in the direction of the Baltic Sea.
Resistance of America and Europe
The US government wants to avoid Nord Stream 2 shortly before its completion. In December 2019, construction work on the Danish island of Bornholm came to an abrupt halt because the two Swiss laying vessels had stopped working under pressure from US sanctions.
The United States Congress had previously passed the “Act to Protect Europe’s Energy Security” with the support of both parties. US President Donald Trump, who will have to leave the White House in January after his electoral defeat, put the law into effect despite harsh criticism from Germany and Russia. The future president of the United States, Joe Biden, also opposes the pipeline.
The United States fears that its European partners are too dependent on Russia and wants to increasingly supply Europe with gas of its own production, which is obtained largely with the help of controversial fracking technology. Washington has the support of Eastern European countries such as Poland and the Baltic countries.
In the future, 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be pumped from Russia to Germany each year through the two Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, each about 1,200 kilometers long. The pipeline, which costs about 9.5 billion euros, is 94 percent complete.
