In a development that could ratchet up tensions between the United States and Germany, the consortium building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has said that it has resumed work on the controversial project.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
In 2015, Gazprom and 5 other European energy firms decided to build Nord Stream 2, valued at around $11 billion.
The 1,200 km pipeline will run from Ust-Luga in Russia to Greifswald in Germany, and will carry 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year.
The under-construction pipeline will run along the already-completed Nord Stream 1 system, and the two together will supply an aggregate of 110 billion cubic metres of gas to Germany per year.
The pipeline falls in German and Danish territory, and all but 150 km of pipes for the project have already been laid.
