USA kritiserar Nord Stream-ledningen
USA är kritiskt till planerna på den omstridda gasledningen Nord Stream 2 som ska koppla ihop Ryssland och Tyskland. Det sa den amerikanske utrikesministern Rex Tillerson vid en presskonferens i Warszawa, enligt flera medier.
– Liksom Polen är USA emot Nord Stream 2-gasledningen. Vi anser att den underminerar Europas övergripande energisäkerhet och -stabilitet, sa Tillerson.
Nord Stream 2 är tänkt att tas i bruk 2020, skriver TT.
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Wikipedia (en)
Nord Stream (former names: North Transgas and North European Gas Pipeline; Russian: Северный поток, Severny potok) is an offshore natural gas pipeline from Vyborg in the Russian Federation to Greifswald in Germany that is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG. The project includes two parallel lines. The first line was laid by May 2011 and was inaugurated on 8 November 2011. The second line was laid in 2011–2012 and was inaugurated on 8 October 2012. At 1,222 kilometres (759 mi) in length, it is the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world, surpassing the Langeled pipeline. It has an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic metres (1.9 trillion cubic feet), but its capacity is planned to be doubled to 110 billion cubic metres (3.9 trillion cubic feet) by 2019, by laying two additional lines. Due to EU restrictions on Gazprom, only 22.5 billion cubic metres (790 billion cubic feet) of its capacity is actually used. The name occasionally has a wider meaning, including the feeding onshore pipeline in the Russian Federation, and further connections in Western Europe.
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