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Mr President, a gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea means increased climate-change emissions and serious environmental risks to the sensitive ecosystem of the Baltic. There is a risk of disturbance to the biological balance. What could happen with all the mines dumped on the seabed? The projected pipeline – if it is completed according to plan – means a major departure from the commitment to which lip-service is so often paid in climate discussions. However, all that talk on the climate issue needs to be taken seriously and translated into concrete action and measures.
Every undertaking to lock up billions in natural gas investment delays much-needed investment in renewable alternative energy and goes against all the declared intentions to rethink policy on the environment and to halt climate change. The Baltic Sea and the climate issue must be brought into focus, which is why we demand that Nord Stream examine an alternative route over land before any decision is taken on a possible future gas pipeline – this is entirely consistent with the decision of the Swedish Government in February this year."@en1
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