Baltic pipeline stirs petitioners ire

Plans for a gas pipeline running under the Baltic Sea linking Russia and Germany were before the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee on 29 January 2008. Petitions with over 28,000 signatures from Lithuania and Poland are calling for the environmental aspects of the project to be taken into account before construction goes ahead. They say that the shallow Baltic Sea is already polluted with chemicals. They want the pipeline's backers – the Nord Stream Company and the European Commission - to reconsider.

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European Parliament: Press Release, 8.7.08: Environmental and geopolitical concerns mix in EP objections to Nord Stream project http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/021-33607-189-07-28-902-20080707IPR33591-07-07-2008-2008-false/default_en.htm

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