BERLIN – Ecologists from the Environmental Action Germany (DUH) filed yet another complaint against the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline project with the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH); the regulator is examining it, work under the project has not stopped, a BSH representative told Interfax.
“They protested the May -September construction permit issued in 2018. We will check the statement and make a decision. Work has not been halted,” the spokeswoman said.
The project’s construction permits are issued for various times of the year: from September to May and from May to September. At present, the September to May one is invalid because of another DUH complaint, now being considered by a court in Hamburg. But the BSH used the opportunity to issue a separate permit for the construction of two kilometers of the pipeline in Germany’s exclusive economic zone.
According to the DUH, a total of 14 kilometers have yet to be built in German waters. In recent days the pipe-laying ship (PLS) Fortuna built two kilometers of the trunk, now she is due to return to Danish waters and resume work there alongside a more advanced Russian PLS, Akademik Cherksy. Work in Germany will resume later, the DUH said.
