Danish green light for Nord Stream
Danmark today became the first country to approve the laying of the Nord Stream pipeline in its territorial waters.
The Danish approval comes a month after Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin for talks about the project. The 1220 km long pipeline will run 137 km in Danish territorial waters. “We have investigated the safety and the environmental aspects of the project very thoroughly,” Kirsten Lundt Erichsen, an engineer with the Danish agency, said by telephone to Bloomberg, the Moscow Times reports. Gazprom and its foreign project partners expect to the get the approvals from the remaining four Baltic countries by year’s end. Finland has already approved the environmental part of the project, while Sweden remains the most skeptical of the affected countries.
