http://www.petroleum-economist.com/default.asp?page=14&PubID=46&ISS=23 383&SID=673855
Nord Stream's offshore route is unnecessarily expensive, environmentally dangerous and represents an opportunity for the EU to defend its ground against Russia, writes Robert Amsterdam
The subsea route proposed by Nord Stream's developers is unnecessary: there is a cheaper and far more environmentally satisfactory route – overland through Poland. Yet the Nord Stream consortium appears to leave regulators without a choice of where the pipeline will be laid because it does not highlight this obvious alternative
It is simple fact.
And it's not just industrial waste. Following World War II, virtually the entire chemical arsenal of Nazi Germany was dumped (more...), with much of it -- at least 35,000 tons -- ending up on the floor of the Baltic Sea. Hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical weapons from the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States were also chucked overboard in the northern Atlantic, North Sea, and elsewhere, including the Baltic. The poisonous weapons -- including mustard gas, phosphorus, nerve gas, and other highly toxic chemicals -- were joined by hundreds of thousands of unused bombs, mines and grenades.
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