Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation officially notified the relevant ministries of the Baltic States (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden) of the launch of environmental impact assessment of third and fourth lines of the Nord Stream pipeline.
The essential precondition of issuing permissions by Baltic States governments to conduct works in their territorial waters in the Baltic Sea amounts to the observance of the Espoo Convention, which regulates the environmental impact of transborder business activities.
Nord Stream AG, the project’s operator, provided the preliminary mapping of of the pipeline routes, which are already adjusted to take into account ecologically sensitive areas, shipping lanes and other special areas. The company has already designed risk management systems, environmental impact mitigation measures as well as infrastructure and logistics required to build the new lines.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, April 05, 2013