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"Mr President, the Nord Stream Baltic pipeline has been a controversial project since the day the former German Chancellor took a senior executive position in the company managing the venture. It has raised justified concerns about energy security issues in several countries around the Baltic Sea. It has become a classic example of the principle of European solidarity gone wrong. There can surely be no doubts regarding the geopolitical importance to Russia of the Nord Stream project.
However, it is not these issues we are debating today. Today we are discussing another very important aspect of Nord Stream’s pipeline: its environmental impact. I was, therefore, very surprised that Commissioner Dimas first stressed the importance of the energy supply and business aspects of the project, only later referring to the environmental impact. I would have expected a different set of priorities from the Commissioner for the Environment.
We all agree that the Baltic Sea is a unique and fragile environmental environment. Numerous experts share the concerns of petitioners and are rightly suspicious of an environmental impact report penned by Nord Stream’s experts. Please note that the very countries around the Baltic Sea which feel the non-environmental threats of the pipeline most keenly will also suffer any environmental damage directly. Adoption of amendments that play down the environmental threats will, frankly speaking, add insult to injury."@en1
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