Nord Stream 2 is the main gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which should run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. It is planned to build two “strands” of the gas pipeline with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Russia to Germany. Work on the construction began in 2011, but there are still controversial issues about this.
Earlier, the United States, Ukraine and the Baltic countries opposed the “Stream”.
On April 13, the German company Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) filed a lawsuit in the administrative court of the city of Hamburg (northern Germany). The main goal of the company is to stop the construction of a gas pipeline in the waters of its country. Eco-activists say that the laying of pipes will cause irreparable damage to the flora and fauna in the area of the construction of the “Stream”. The organization notes that the project is the largest in Europe for fossil fuels. Thus, there is a discrepancy between the “climate goals”. Activists make a special emphasis on the fact that Germany wants and plans to reduce the level of gas consumption. But during the construction of the gas pipeline, its emissions will amount to about 100 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
The organization has been making these demands for several weeks now. So one of the protests was rejected on April 1 by the Federal Office for Shipping and Hydrography (BSH).
“DUH considers BSH’s permission for further construction from January 2021 to be illegal: there is no need for Nord Stream 2, the consequences for climate goals (climate protection policy goals) are ignored, the impact on seabirds and porpoises based on irrelevant data is ignored,” — the organization said.
According to Reuters, another non-governmental organization Naturschutzbund Deutschland (“Union for the Protection of Nature and Biodiversity”), opposed the issuance of a construction permit.
