this german government Nord Stream 2 thinks two pipes of the gas pipeline have become useless Reminds me that for the eruptions recorded last September, construction never received a permit to operate.
“Most probably sabotage action and powerful explosions caused adverse effects According to public television ARD, government resources are not in the two channels of the gas pipeline and therefore not in the technical conditions necessary to start operation,” he said.
This statement, released by this media this Thursday, is in response to a question posed by the parliamentary group of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which raises the possibility of using one of the Nord Stream 2 pipes. explosions.
The question from this formation came after a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin suggesting the possibility of using this pipe to re-supply Russian gas via Nord Stream.
The response, according to government sources, also reminds us that: The authorization process for Nord Stream 2’s license was suspended last February. Russian attack on Ukraine and therefore it will not work.
The successive explosions recorded last September and attributed to acts of sabotage rendered two pipes of Nord Stream 1 and one pipe of Nord Stream unusable.
Nord Stream 1, which became operational in 2011, has therefore become completely unusable, after months of drastically reducing Russian gas supplies.
The second natural gas pipeline, the construction of which was started in 2011, was not put into service. Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz stopped its certification last February, as a result of which it was almost complete and the independent breakaway Donbas republics were recognized by Moscow.
The controversial German-Russian project was born in 2005 as a result of an agreement between then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his political ally Putin. It is considered the key to Germany’s strong energy dependence on Russia during the 16 years in power of Chancellor Angela Merkel, which was decided to build the second gas pipeline.