Stubb supports Nord-Stream
Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubb says Finland could give its backing to the pipeline project under the Baltic Sea.
The sub-sea part of the Nord Stream pipeline will pump gas from Russia’s St. Petersburg region to Greifswald in Germany bypassing the sea outside Finland, the Baltic countries, Sweden and Poland.
For both environmental and security reasons the countries to be affected have raised many critical questions about the gas-pipe project.
But now, Finland’s Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb says that the Nord Stream project is necessary along with the South Stream and Nabucco gas pipeline projects, reports RIA Novosti with reference to an interview with Stubb at Belgian radio station Contact Plus.
The North Stream pipeline will provide Europe with natural gas from Western Siberia like the Yamal Peninsula and maybe also from the huge Shtokman-field in the Barents Sea sometime in the future.
