Grigory Pasko: Looking a gift horse in the mouth, Part 3
[See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style Beware of Greeks bearing gifts Part 3 Grigory Pasko, journalist I met with environmental activist and member of the «greens» Party of the island of Gotland Stefaan De Maecker at the local university. What do you think of the Nord Stream project? There is a tendency to first decide on big projects, and only then look at the environmental impact. Everything gets decided and then they ask: ‘Oh, how might this impact the environment?’ But by then everything is too late. [As concerns Nord Stream specifically], of course it’s never too late, but the conditions in which we have to work are not the best. The European Union has already made a decision that this is a really important project. …Germany and Russia are really determined that this project will happen. …