Denmark’s Energy Agency has ruled that the developers of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project may use pipelaying ships equipped with anchors to recommence construction of the controversial project. An earlier permit foresaw the use of self- or dynamic-positioning vessels that would not disturb the floor of the Baltic Sea, which is strewn in some areas with chemical weapons dumped there after World War II.
If implemented, however, expanded U.S. sanctions introduced by U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in June could bring pipeline construction to a standstill again.
