{"id":28520,"date":"2017-12-03T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28520"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:11:47","slug":"nord-stream-2-pipeline-becomes-less-plausible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28520","title":{"rendered":"Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Becomes Less Plausible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built.<\/p>\n

Speaking to European journalists in a telephone briefing on November 29, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State John McCarrick said that U.S. officials “don’t see the possibility that Nord Stream 2 can be built.”<\/p>\n

“That is not something we are going to assume is going to happen,” said McCarrick, who works at the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources.<\/p>\n

When pressed for details, McCarrick responded that “there is a variety of reasons why it shouldn’t happen…. The bottom line is we are against this. We don’t see this happening, so why would I entertain any other sort of option or possibility?\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the United States introduced sanctions that call for penalties against European companies that participate in the Nord Stream 2 and other Russian energy projects in Europe.<\/p>\n

If built, the pipeline will run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, bypassing several European transit countries. It is scheduled to be completed by 2019.<\/p>\n

Berlin has so far supported the pipeline, which would deliver 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year to Germany from Russia.<\/p>\n

Several EU members in Central and Eastern Europe have expressed concern that the project would strengthen Moscow’s hand by increasing European reliance on Russian natural gas.<\/p>\n

They have also voiced concern that it would reduce gas-transit revenues for Ukraine, damaging the country’s fragile economy at a time when its forces are fighting Russia-backed separatists who control part of two eastern provinces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Becomes Less Plausible A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built. Speaking to European journalists in a telephone briefing on November 29, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State John McCarrick said that U.S. officials “don’t see the possibility that Nord Stream 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[284,359,17321,10148,694,827],"class_list":["post-28520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-john-mccarrick","tag-nord-stream-two","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28521,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions\/28521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}