Germany approves Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline project | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Germany issued permission on Monday for the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline in its exclusive economic zone.
The permission was issued by Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Hamburg. Earlier, Germany permitted the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in its territorial wasters.
Nord Stream AG, the project operator, has already received permits from Denmark, Sweden and Russia through whose waters the pipeline will pass, and also the Finnish exclusive economic zone permit and a permit for the 50-kilometer (31-mile) section of the pipeline in German territorial waters and landfall in Lubmin near Greifswald.”