Controversial pipeline given green light to move forward
Nov 11, 2009
Staff and wire reports
TALLINN - Nord Stream, a 7.4 billion euro pipeline that would pump natural gas from Russia to Germany and bypass Ukraine, cleared its last major regulatory hurdle on Nov. 5 when Sweden and Finland both gave the go-ahead to a project that could redraw Europe's energy map, reports The Wall Street Journal. The two countries' governments said they had granted consent for the pipeline to pass through their exclusive economic zones in the Baltic sea.
Denmark approved the project on Oct. 22. Th ...
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