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In Germany, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state government, headed by Prime Minister Manuela Schwezig, will introduce state protection in the next seven days against German companies involved in laying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This is supposed to protect against sanctions from States. United.
This is reported in the BILD edition with reference to classified documents. A special meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers will be held, in which the government will agree to create a “Climate Protection Fund.” The state parliament must decide on the creation of the fund in a special meeting.
According to a BILD source, the document says: “The state government is creating a fund that supports and promotes climate protection activities in the state through a wide range of organizations and institutions, as well as civil society activists, and at the same time it can contribute to the completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
The fund “will carry out tasks related to the additional construction of Nord Stream 2. The reason is this:” Current US sanctions legislation requires the immediate creation of the fund. “
At the end of December, the date January 15 was indicated in the Danish Maritime Administration notification, it has now been confirmed by the country’s energy agency. Denmark issued a permit to operate the pipeline in October.
Nord Stream 2 will avoid transit states: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland. Its launch could result in the loss of billions of dollars in the transit of blue fuel. The cost of the “pipeline” is about 9.5 billion euros. This is one of Gazprom’s most expensive projects. German companies also participate. They want to supply gas from Russia directly to Germany.
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, the Russian ship Akademik Chersky, which will complete the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, left the German port of Mukran, the project’s logistics base. After a month in Germany, the pipelayer headed to the Russian city of Kaliningrad.
US sanctions are the main obstacle to the completion of Nord Stream 2. As of October 20, they concern insurance and certified companies that work with ships.
Starting in 2021, not only companies that provide ships for the construction of Nord Stream 2 will fall under US sanctions, but also those that are dedicated to modernizing ships that are supposed to complete it, install the necessary equipment or finance these processes. .
