Posted on 01/05/2021 10:37:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Norwegian firm that was meant to have provided technical and safety certificates for Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany has abandoned the project due to US sanctions.
“DNV GL will cease all verification activities for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline system in line with sanctions and while sanctions are in place,” it said in a statement sent to EUobserver on Monday (4 January).
“We are implementing a plan to wind down our verification support to the project. As the situation currently stands, DNV GL cannot issue a certificate upon the completion of the pipeline,” it added.
A spokesman for the firm said the decision came following new US legislation passed on Friday called the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Clarification Act.
He declined to comment on how DNV GL’s decision might impact the pipeline.
“Legal requirements for certification and verification vary depending on national jurisdictions,” he said.
But he noted that the Norwegian company had been working on Nord Stream 2 for five years prior to the US crackdown, indicating that it might take a long time for a different firm to step in and do the job instead.
The latest blow to the Russian-German project came after previous US sanctions prompted Swiss-based firm Allseas to abandon pipe-laying on the last segments of the 1,224km pipe in late 2019. …
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Red herring.
LOL. Says a globalist advocate:) Hillary is behind the NSII opposition.
Why? Ukraine and Poland’s interest are irrelevant on issues of trade between Germany and Russia. EU has nothing to do with it. You point is worse than red herring.
You seem driven to defend anti-American actions.
Now you’re making things up.
How is a Russo-German alliance non-globalist?
You are asking me to prove that the white is black. What is globalist about it?
Beautiful plumage!
Except the rest of the World sees otherwise.
Consider what ideology the “rest of the world” is hung up on. Different forms of socialism.
That is a sort of misleading and irrevevant statement. Are you advocating opposing the whole World? There have been precedents in history and none with a good end.
I certainly do not advocate going along with the whole world. By contrast, they are opposing us. Ask yourself why.
I do not take countries whose constitutions resemble the old USSR constitution in a great manner seriously. And I’ve studied a number of their constitutions.
Hmmm. Do you advocate another Rome in DC? Or do you like the Reich rendition more?
How do you expect it to work out any different?
I am not advocating to get along with everyone and generally believe that every nation has to put its national interest first, but that is not by finger in every pie.
Maybe you should listen to the Eurocrats a little closer. One of them said that the EU was “living by the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire”.
And you’re using red herrings again. One cannot expect the USA to forget the lessons of history.
So, being imperial is following the lessons of history? History says otherwise. That is not what Jefferson wanted.
It’s what the EU wants. José Manuel Barroso unabashedly called the EU an “empire” back in 2007 when he was the head of the unelected EU Commission.
And the USA is not imperialistic. Please stop using left-wing mischaracterizations of the USA that date from the Cold War. Stopping other empires from absconding with undue power is the opposite of imperialism.
Are German or Russian ‘empire’ treading on US? Don’t you think the Monroe Doctrine has two sides to it?
Do you realize what sort of resentment the policies you are advocating cause in Germany and Russia?
Imagine if it would reach a critical mass and they decide to join forces and then ally with China against the US based on it. It didn’t work all that great for the Roman Empire.
It is not what made America great at the time.
Yes they are. Consider how many products even sold in the US currently bear that “C E” mark. Much of the censorship on social media platforms is due to compliance with EU directives. And historically, cooperation between Germany and Russia has always been a harbinger of warlike acts if not open war.
That is just laughable in fact.
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