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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reaction to the U.S. possible sanctions on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is a "clear declaration of war" on U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Bild newspaper. Previously, she noted that Germany was opposed to U.S. extraterritorial sanctions and will "hold very decisive talks" on the issue of U.S. sanctions against Nord Stream-2. According to Bild, Merkel's response to the Congress decision on sanctions was "clear". It was "a clear declaration of war" on Trump. The Chancellor "will not tolerate" the United States "continuing to undermine the gas pipeline project, which is backed by her," the...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia decided Thursday it will not allow a German-Russian consortium to conduct a survey of its exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea for a planned underwater gas pipeline. The survey was necessary for a possible rerouting of the 750-mile pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. "Each coastal country has full sovereignty and a right to make decision involving its own waters," Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said in a news conference. "Furthermore, we think the Baltic Sea is not a proper place for such a pipeline." Estonia's refusal...

Sweden's coastguard said on Thursday it had discovered a fourth gas leak on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines earlier this week, after ruptures first reported on Monday sent gas spewing into the Baltic Sea. The European Union suspects sabotage was behind the leaks on the subsea Russian pipelines to Europe, and has promised a "robust" response to any intentional disruption of its energy infrastructure. The leak reported on Thursday is the second one found in Swedish waters, while two others were discovered in Danish waters.

European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said deliberate disruption would meet the "strongest possible response". The EU has previously accused Russia of using gas supplies as a weapon against the West over its support for Ukraine. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed accusations of sabotage as "predictable, stupid and absurd The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he thought the leaks would "not have a significant impact on Europe's energy resilience". Neither pipeline is transporting gas at the moment, although they both contain gas. Mr Blinken did not directly accuse Russia - but said it would be in...

Thank you USA BTW, there's no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany. Nordstream's only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity. All Ukrainian and Baltic sea states have opposed Nordstream's construction for 20 years. Now $20 billion of scrap metal lies at the bottom of the sea, another cost to Russia of its criminal decision to invade Ukraine. Someone, @MFA_Russia, did a special maintenance operation.

someone blew up in Nor Stream Pipe line and gas is escaping from the Baltic Sea

A series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany triggered concerns about sabotage Tuesday, overshadowing the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland to bolster Europe’s energy independence from Moscow. Seismic stations Sweden, Norway and Finland registered two explosions Monday near the leaks. Bjorn Lund, a seismologist with Uppsala University who is part of Sweden’s national seismic network, said the first explosion was recorded in the early hours southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. The latter and stronger blast that night was northeast of...

ESTONIA WILL NOT ALLOW THE NORD STREAM PIPELINE ON ITS SEABED By Vladimir Socor Thursday, September 27, 2007 Estonia's government has turned down the Russo-German company Nord Stream's request to survey the seabed off the Estonian coast. The survey was to precede the construction of the Russian gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed to Germany for Gazprom. The Estonian coalition government took the decision unanimously on September 21. It has met with general understanding in the European Union and in German editorial pages since then, contrary to previous attempts by interested German circles to portray this Gazprom-led project as a...

Poland Bent North the Gas Pipeline of Russia Swiss Nord Stream AG that is the project operator for North European Gas Pipeline has announced the political adjustments in its route. Nord Stream owner – Gazprom – decided to lead the gas pipeline out of the challenged territorial water of Poland and Denmark in the south of the Island of Bornholm and lay it to the north of the island, in Sweden’s economic area. As of today, the first official concession to the EU will cost Gazprom another 8 kilometers of the pipe. Days earlier, Nord Stream was forced to make...

Estonia Hampers Russian Gas Pipeline Project 16:11, 07/05/2007 Russia and Estonia exchanged another set of accusations late last week, showing that the ongoing conflict is far from being over. Meanwhile, Tallinn has found a tool to retaliate. Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip declined to meet former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to discuss participation in a Russian gas pipeline, which means the project implementation will slow down. Russian and Estonian official kept the argument sentiment hot over the weekend as the Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov demanded an apology for the removal of the Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn....

Baltic Pipeline Faces a Minefield of Problems By Miriam Elder Staff Writer When a Gazprom-led consortium begins laying the foundation for a major new pipeline to pump Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Western Europe, it is likely to run into problems -- thousands of them. The North European Gas Pipeline, or Nord Stream, is due to snake along the seabed over an area covered with hundreds of thousands of unexploded mines and munitions dating as far back as World War I. Officials and environmental groups in several of the countries that border the Baltic say construction of...

The energy weapon NEW VISTAS Jeremy Seabrook At a conference on democracy in Vinlius, Lithuania in early May 2006, the Vice-President of the USA, Dick Cheney, made an uncompromising attack on the rulers of Russia, not only because of their democratic back-sliding, but because of Russia’s use of its oil and gas reserves as “tools of intimidation or blackmail” against neighbouring countries. Many independent observers felt that this return to Cold War rhetoric (one should never underestimate the appeal of nostalgia) was particularly ill-judged, coming as it did from an unpopular US administration which not only maintains clandestine detention facilities...

Gas Diplomacy By Michal Jeziorski 7 June 2006 The plan to build a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea has caused controversy in Poland and across the European Union. Polish politicians say national energy policy will only be effective if it is built on the principle of solidarity. Poland's priority is to diversify sources of gas. Russia is increasingly seen as cynically taking advantage of the former East Bloc countries' dependence on its raw materials. After pro-Western forces won the elections in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, Gazprom dramatically increased its gas prices for these countries. The...

Poland opposes EU financing for Northern gas pipeline Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga voiced opposition to the possibility of "controversial" energy projects being financed from the EU budget, her spokesman told the Polish news agency PAP on Monday. Fotyga made the remarks at a Monday meeting of European Union (EU) foreign ministers in Luxembourg. "Poland believes that if the EU decides to participate in the financing of projects aimed at diversification of energy supplies, it should not finance projects that raise controversy in some member countries," the spokesman cited her as saying. One such project is the Russian-German Northern Pipeline,...

Dead-end dialog From Warsaw Business Journal by Katarzyna Dêbek Poland's Economy Minister says a lack of direction in the dialog with Russia poses a real threat to the EU's energy security. By 2030, 90 percent of the EU's oil consumption and 80 percent of its gas intake will have to come from foreign sources. When it comes to gas, some 60 percent of those imports are expected to come from Russia. However, according to Economy Minister Piotr WoŸniak, the EU is not taking a sufficiently consistent stance in its energy talks with Moscow. "The EU-Russia energy dialog is suspended in...

Estonia frowns on Baltic pipeline The German-Russian deal struck last autumn to build a pipeline under the Baltic Sea to pump natural gas from Russia continues to raise concerns in the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine. These countries’ leaders have said they felt uneasy about, what they felt was, deals being made behind their back on an issue as vital as energy security. This report by Michal Zajac in Tallinn. Even though most of the information concerning the manner in which the gas pipeline will be constructed remains secret, environmentalists in the Baltic states still say that threats to the...

Russian-German intergovernmental consultations in Tomsk Germany and Russia have demonstrated a will for more closer economic co-operation, but they are still struggling to agree terms The eighth annual Russian-German intergovernmental consultations, the first since the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel took over power in Germany, were held in Tomsk on 26-27 April. It was an opportunity for both sides to demonstrate a desire to continue co-operating ever more closely, especially in the economic sphere. The documents signed in Tomsk include an important agreement between the gas companies BASF and Gazprom to swap framework assets. However, the practical outcome of the...

Germany hopes to end pipeline row with PolandPublished: Friday, 19 May, 2006, 12:52 PM Doha Time WARSAW: German president Horst Koehler said yesterday he was confident a solution will be found to a row over Russian-German plans to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline, a project fiercely opposed by Poland. “Obvious differences in opinion concerning the gas pipeline will not only be discussed but also resolved in a constructive manner,” said Koehler at a joint press conference in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski. Russian energy giant Gazprom and German companies BASF and E.ON agreed in September, with the...

Moncrief Responds to BASF – Gazprom Deal to Develop Yuzhno Ruskoye Gas Field in Russia 4/26/2006 1:05:00 PM To: National and International Desks, Business and Energy Reporters Contact: Jeffrey W. Miller of Moncrief Oil International, Inc., 817-348-8454 FORT WORTH, Texas, April 26 /U.S. Neswire/ -- Moncrief Oil International, Inc. today issued the following statement in response to reports that BASF and E.ON may be finalizing contractual arrangements with Gazprom at the occasion of the German-Russian bilateral Government Consultations taking place today in Tomsk, Russia to acquire a 35 percent working interest in the Yuzhno Ruskoye gas field in Western Siberia:...

Russian-German pipeline ‘environmental danger’ say Poles Poland might demand compensation from Russia for environmental damage caused by the construction of the already controversial Baltic gas pipeline. Report by Slawek Szerfs 16.05.06 Environmental protection specialists are sounding the alarm that the construction of the Russian-German Northern gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea may cause an ecological disaster. Poland has been viewing the potential consequences and has not excluded compensation claims. The economy ministry in Warsaw has been in contact with the European Environmental Control Commission for some time already to acquaint itself with the construction plans and schedule of this gigantic...