German government sources admit that the pipes of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline were rendered unusable after the explosions that occurred in September and recall that the facility was never authorized to operate.
“It is very likely that the act of sabotage and the strong explosions have had negative effects on the pipeline pipes and, therefore, the necessary technical conditions for it to come into operation are not met,” government sources quoted by German public television said. ARD.
The clarification transmitted this Thursday by the ARD is the answer to a question addressed by the far-right parliamentary group Alternative for Germany (AfD) that asked for answers about the possibility of using the Nord Stream 2 tubes that had not been affected by the explosions . .
The AfD party’s question was raised after statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who suggested the possibility of using the pipeline to send gas again through the Nord Stream system.
In the same response broadcast today by the ARD television network, government sources recall that the authorization process for the Nord Stream 2 license was “suspended” last February after the new Russian aggression against Ukraine and, therefore, no it will work.
The series of explosions in September, attributed to acts of sabotage, rendered two lines of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and one of the Nord Stream 2 lines unusable.
Nord Stream 1, which had been operational in 2011, stopped working. The second pipeline, whose construction had begun in 2011, did not enter service.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suspended the license in February, when it was nearly complete. This controversial German-Russian project began in 2005 after a pact between then Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and political ally Vladimir Putin.
Germany’s strong energy dependence on Russia was maintained during the 16-year term of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who decided to build the second gas pipeline (Nord Stream 2).
Source: TSF
