EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PETITIONS COMMITTEE CONCERN OVER NORD STREAM PIPELINE
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENVIRONMENTAL impact of the proposed Russia-to-Germany Baltic Sea pipeline should be "carefully investigated" and alternative overland routes considered first, the European Parliament petitions committee has said. Responding to concerns of Polish and Lithuanian environmentalists, the committee concluded if an undersea Nord Stream pipeline did pose real and serious environmental risk, EU institutions and member states should "use every legal means" to prevent its construction.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL impact of the proposed Russia-to-Germany Baltic Sea pipeline should be "carefully investigated" and alternative overland routes considered first, the European Parliament petitions committee has said. Responding to concerns of Polish and Lithuanian environmentalists, the committee concluded if an undersea Nord Stream pipeline did pose real and serious environmental risk, EU institutions and member states should "use every legal means" to prevent its construction.
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