Nord Stream 2 is possibly the world’s most controversial infrastructure project, and it was thrust further into the spotlight when Russia invaded Ukraine earlier in 2022. The future of this monumental feat of engineering and maritime construction is unclear. Right now, it seems doubtful that the Nord Stream 2 will ever be anything more than an empty tube of steel and concrete at the bottom of the Baltic Sea (and maybe that’s for the best).
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22 Comments
I wish I could see how many dislikes this video received.
Great video! This is an important topic.
Me: Look mom, a video about something that involves germany.
My mom: oh no…
We do expext video about prices of electricity from gas, coal, nuclear reaction and alternative sources.
Thanks Joe Biden, and everyone that voted for him.
Do Line 3 replacement or KXL next! Or at some point
It was interesting to watch a never ending stream of obstacles thrown at them from sanctions to acquiring a scientific proof that construction operations will not distract fish from mating. Looks like politics won in the end.
I think the mental gymnastics to hold such an opinion must be very hard to accomplish.
Welcome to the big league Grady! I've enjoyed your friendly explanations of basic infrastructure for years. Congratulations on stepping up to explain a major infrastructure project that has massive impact on global politics. The regular news talks about pipelines, but only an engineering communicator as knowledgeable as you could explain this in such an understandable way. Thank you for daring to take this on and doing it so well.
so it would stand to reason, it's cheaper to overthrow Putins regime xD
>>"Let me know what you think"
Then, deleting all comments you don't like. Ahaha
Here need to go motivations on why a gas pipeline should have its own website <——
9:32 wait, they're using natural gas as a bridge away from nuclear? shouldn't it be the other way around??
I live in Germany. Thanks to Merkel for shutting down nuclear power plants and making Germany a slave to Russia. Russians are grateful to Germany for financially supporting the genocide in Ukraine.
What a waste of human, natural and money resources. Nevermind the CO2 emitions caused by the construction itself.
Not ok for russia to have pipelines but its ok for Israel and ukraine—-
Bs propaganda
If the US wanted to improve US-German relations, the US could allow natural gas to be shipped to Germany. The infrastructure to extract and move natural gas is sitting idle in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, etc with nowhere to go. Efforts to run a pipeline to ports in Philadelphia were stopped short only miles before the city and permits to load the gas on to railcars and deliver it to NYC were issued and revoked without warning. Economic impact of shipping gas would be beneficial to both continents.
What I think? I think ive seen videos of ukrain citizens being bombed with USA bombs. WHy would ukraine bomb its own citizens you ask? Maybe the question you should be asking is 'why haven't I heard of this?'
CO2 is plant food
On the one hand: slightly less paper in our wallets as energy prices increases.
On the other hand: submission to a foreign olivarch known for abusing his power without scruples and acceleration of the imminent global catastrophe scientists and activists have been warning us about for 50 years. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
It really is a hard choice huh?🙄
Man. You're blabbing about things that you do not understand. The conflict you have courage to call "invasion" was already going for 8 YEARS, before Russia got involved. It's real shame, that you managed to get politics involved in a channel totally about engeneering. What a disappointment. I was a sub from the start. Now I'm called an invader to a place where language-based genocide was happening against my relatives for 8 years. DO NOT TALK PUBLICLY ABOUT THINGS YOU NOT UNDERSTAND.
One thing you should mention is why it was built in the first place. Ukraine used a complete cut in transit as a negotiating tactic which freaked Germany out. The Germans begged the Russians for the pipeline and promised that they would prevent any problems as they are the biggest country in the EU. After controversy and trouble after Nordstream 2 was in construction and Ukraine was failing to implement the Minsk accords which it had signed. Germany and France guaranteed Ukrainian implementation because they bankroll Ukraine but they did nothing. Russia finished the project mainly out of pride and once the Power of Siberia 2 is operational I think they will completely stop going through Ukraine. What it's more of a question of whether Germany and most of Europe will get and gas at all. They don't have long term contracts anymore; it's all on the spot market.
The EU put itself in a position for Russia to assert political pressure on them by gutting their energy production… Just a bunch of woke NWO establishment globalists…. And Russia has been picked as the big bad guy to distract from China and because Putin wont fall in line with the NWO. Ukraine is an estbalishment puppet state and a hotbed for their global corruption.