Grigory Pasko: The Vyborg Hearings on Nord Stream, Part 3
[Our correspondent in Russia recently discovered that the border town of Vyborg near St. Petersburg was going to hold discreet (practically secret) public hearings on Gazprom’s mega-project, the Nord Stream pipeline, to discuss the social and environmental impact of the initiative. Below is the third and final installment – read Part 1 and Part 2.] We’ve got gas in Lubmin. How about you? On certain peculiarities of the gasification of Russia By Grigory Pasko, journalist The inhabitants of the small German town of Lubmin, of course, are happy that Russian gas through the Nord Stream gas pipeline will come to their homes. But they are just as concerned by the impact of this pipeline on the ecological situation in their region. And the Germans are certainly not in the least bit worried about whether or not the Russians themselves have gas – because they are absolutely sure a priori that they do. I must say, how naïve these Germans are!