the Pipeline is designed to be placed next to the first, at the bottom of the Baltic sea, from Russia to Europe. The commission is now going through the EU’s regulatory framework to see if there is any legal way to stop the project.
– We can see that all our rules are followed, that gaspaketet, for example, and our environmental regulations. The tools we have, but we also have to follow the law, ” says Miguel Arias Cañete.
How do you think it will go?
“You should never say that you can predict the future, but we have talked about Gazprom in a year now and still has construction not started,” he says.
But so far the commission has not found any way to prohibit the management of environmental reasons or because it would distort competition between member states. Still think klimatkommissionären that it may be possible to stop it.
It is the Russian energy company Gazprom, which wants to build the Nord Stream 2. The EU still uses huge amounts of oil and gas and a third of it comes from Russia.
Ukraine has been used as a hub for onward transport of the gas, but with the Nord Stream 2, Ukraine could be removed from the gas flow. In this way, the new management a pawn in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Miguel Arias Cañete see political motives to russia’s Gazprom to build the Nord Stream 2.
– clearly, there is a political interest here, since the gas flows through Ukraine may be cut off if you build the Nord Stream 2, ” he says.
After the Russian annexation of the Crimea and the heightened security situation in the region, there are a number of countries in Europe, including Sweden, who want to stop the pipeline. Moreover, the EU has nowadays a energiunion, whose main objectives are to reduce the EU’s import dependency of energy and increase the share of renewable energy. Nord Stream 2 would imply an opposite development.
According to Miguel Arias Cañete, there are no business reasons to build the pipeline, with close to all of the EU’s electricity must come from renewable sources by 2050.
” We may need to also fossil energy sources in a transition period, but to build new infrastructure as there is no need for in the future has no business logic.
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