«Grigory, you’re not right!»

A representative of the company Nord Stream reacts to an article on the blog

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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On 23 April in the port of Slite on Gotland, I saw how workers were building a new wharf for the needs of the gas pipeline that the company Nord Stream is going to lay along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. At this very time (what an amazing coincidence!) I received a phone call from a representative of the company Nord Stream AG, a Mister Vugar Veysalov, Permitting Manager for the company Nord Stream AG, who gave me a piece of his mind for an article I had posted on the blog robertamsterdam.com.

I will remind readers of the blog about the crux of the matter in question. A letter came to one of the libraries of Vyborg (Leningrad Oblast of Russia) with an offer to place in their collection for open access the results of an expert study of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the «Gryazovets-Vyborg (Portovaya bay)» gas pipeline. In and of itself, the offer is not unusual: two years ago, this same company had already placed EIA materials in the libraries of Vyborg. But what was remarkable this time around was that the letter was accompanied by an offer to do this for payment.