Finland could back Nord Stream gas pipeline project

MOSCOW. April 20. KAZINFORM. Finland could give its backing to the Nord Stream project to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian gas directly to Germany already in June, a Kremlin source said Sunday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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"I believe that they [Finland] will make a decision in June. We have not received any signals to the effect that they are not going to do this," the Kremlin source said, adding that the decision would allow the gas pipeline to be built across the Nordic country. The Nord Stream pipeline, which will pump gas from Siberia to Europe under the Baltic Sea, bypassing East European transit countries, is being built jointly by Gazprom, Germany's E.ON and BASF, and Dutch gas transportation firm Gasunie at an estimated cost of $12 billion. The ambitious pipeline project is scheduled to be completed in 2012. The first of two parallel pipelines, approximately 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) long, each with a transport capacity of some 27.5 billion cu m per annum, is to become operational in 2010; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.
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