On September 26, 2022, several explosions destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, lying on the Baltic bed, 210 meters deep, from viperg and UST-Luga, both Russian ports, and Greifswald, in Germany. Although the investigation led to a group of … Agents and mercenaries from Ukraine, the authorship of sabotage has never been fully resolved. In a German process of independence of Russian gas and within the framework of the war in Ukraine and European sanctions, the investment of the investment had been lost 7,400 million euros In Nord Stream 1 and around 12,000 million euros in Nord Stream 2, Financed by the Russian Gazprom and the European Shell, E.ON, UNIPER, ENGIE, OMV and WINTERSHALL DEA.
The negotiations for peace in Ukraine that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has promoted in his contacts with Vladimir Putin, have yet returned to put on the table the reactivation of the project. At least from him. The foreign policy expert of the Cristianodemocrata (CDU) union, Roderich Kiesewetterhas confirmed several meetings held by former Nord General Director Stream 2 AG, Matthias Warnig, with several US investors willing to work on the implementation of the gas pipeline, which he had previously informed Financial Times.
These contacts would be carried out within the framework of the peace negotiations for Ukraine and would have the approval, both by Trump and Putin. “A possible commissioning of Nord Stream 2 is a sign that the United States is on the side of the aggressor,” Kiesewetter denounced.
While frontally reject the new implementation of the gas pipeline, government political parties still in functions in Germany, the ‘traffic light coalition’ of Olaf Scholzof which social democrats, liberals and green are part of, which has carried out an enormous effort to make Germany independent of Russian gas, the new government in a negotiation phase and of which the CDU and a new picture of the Social Democratic Party could be more open to the idea.
“If one day there is a fair and safe peace, then we should also allow us to talk again about buying Russian gas,” says Jan Heinisch, vice president of the Parliamentary Group of the CDU in North-Westphalia Rhine and member of the team of negotiators of the great coalition about climate and energy. “Russia is a possible supplier among several in the world.” It is not known whether this will be done by sea or by pipeline.
Another member of the CDU in the Bundestag, Thomas Bareiß, He has reacted with the possibility of the implementation of Nord Stream 2 as part of an agreement between the United States and Russia to resolve the war in Ukraine and possibly with the participation of an American investor. Not without a certain irony, Bareiß has declared “impressed by the entrepreneurs who are our American friends” and has sentenced that, “when peace and relationships prevail again, when the embargoes sooner or later go back, of course the gas can flow again, perhaps this time in a gas pipeline under control of the United States.”
Rejection of the Greens
On the part of the greens, however, the resistance is manifest: “The great coalition threatens to cause great damage to the country if it endangers the greatest independence of the fossil fuels of Russia, won with so much effort,” said the vice president of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens, Julia Verlinden.
The last thing the Federal Ministry of Economy has said, still directed by the Green Robert Habeck and outside the ongoing negotiations, is that “the question of the use of the gas pipeline does not raise.” Other energy experts, however, recommend more pragmatic positions. Jacopo Maria Pepe, of the German Institute of International and Security Affairs, acknowledges that a pipeline operated by an American investor would not benefit Germany and lead to a “double dependence”, but suggests that “if a bankruptcy procedure is opened for the operating company in May, the German state should present an offer.”
«The pipeline is just a ruin at the bottom of the sea at this time, but at least our ruin would be«, he says, and points out that one day Russia gas could be imported again, or a detour could be built in Finland and import hydrogen from there. It is referring to the fact that the Nord Stream 2 operating company, highly indebted, could break soon. According to a decision of a Swiss court, he still has time until May 9 to satisfy the creditors. Otherwise, bankruptcy will open, which corresponds to insolvency procedures in Germany. It also emphasizes that, »under current conditions, the basis for the resumption of deliveries cannot be an agreement between the United States and Russia. For this to happen, the German government would have to have conversations with Russia itself, according to other European states, but this is very difficult and politically difficult to communicate. “
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