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Copenhagen (dpa) - Construction of the controversial German-Russian Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2 is to be continued in Danish waters from mid-January.
As a spokesman for the Danish Energy Administration announced to the German Press Agency on Thursday, the authority received the necessary schedule.
This indicates that the pipe-laying work in Danish waters should continue as planned on January 15th.
This date was also last mentioned by the Russian media, citing Danish authorities.
On Wednesday, Russian agencies reported that the «Akademik Tscherski», which specializes in the laying of pipes, had returned to the construction site.
Before that, she had been in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for around a month.
The Danish energy administration (Energistyrelsen) gave its approval to the gas pipeline in October 2019.
Accordingly, a 147 kilometer long section on the Danish continental shelf southeast of Bornholm is allowed to run through the Baltic Sea.
In order to be able to continue building, however, the authorities had to be presented with an appropriate schedule.
This plan does not have to be approved again.
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Nord Stream 2 is largely completed.
Each year, 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas are to flow from Russia to Germany through the two pipeline pipes, each around 1200 kilometers long.
The billion-dollar project is controversial.
The US is rioting against it, among other things, because it sees that its partners in Europe are too dependent on Russian gas.
That is why they want to prevent completion with threats of sanctions.
Critics accuse the USA of only wanting to sell their liquefied gas better in Europe.
On Thursday, the state parliament in Schwerin cleared the way for the establishment of a state-owned environmental foundation, with which the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also wants to support the completion of the pipeline.
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