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Residents reacted to reports that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could finally be officially completely within the next few days in Lubmin on Monday.
Last week, the Russian energy company GAZPROM announced that they want to deliver several billion cubic meters of gas through the pipelines by the end of the year.
Footage shows the on-land Nord Stream 2 station on Germany’s Baltic coast in Lubmin, as well as the local marina and coastline.
“We all have a common problem, which is an environmental problem, and so why should one not make use of the economic and environmental advantages,” said Mario, a resident.
Others voiced concerns over the gas energy project Germany implemented in partnership with Russia.
“I say to these people [who support the project], which unfortunately have little willingness to rethink it, that it will lead to a large dependency, which I find politically very risky,” said Sabine, another resident.
While some critiqued the Russian-German-partnership, others said they liked “preserving the relationship with Russia” and pointed out that it will not be Germany’s only energy source. The nation also has investment in renewables.
The Nord Stream 2 project has been debated since its conception. In a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday in Kiev, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Selenskyj called the pipeline a “dangerous geopolitical weapon of the Kremlin.”
TRANSLATIONS:
SOT, Mario Resident (German): “In principle I believe that the developed countries, including Russia, are growing ever closer together, and through this there will be less wars and disputes. Then we all have a common problem, which is an environmental problem, and so why should one not make use of the economic and environmental advantages.”
SOT, Mario, Resident (German): “We support this, the usage of solar, wind and alternative energies, we have a lot of wind generators in northern Germany, as well as solar, but until the construction of this is successful, the gas is a good solution.”
SOT, Sabine, Resident (German): “I think that it is a very controversial project, which corresponds to the previous government, and the former Chancellor Schroder, who above all directed the way, which I find a bit strange because he has and maintains a very close relationship with Russia.”
SOT, Sabine, Resident (German): “I say to these people [who support the project], which unfortunately have little willingness to rethink it, that it will lead to a large dependency, which I find politically very risky. One can now see in the world there are many changes, fast changes, which can be ignited over very small things, which is problematic. And what concerns the supply of energy, we are making ourselves ever more dependent.”
SOT, Sabine, Resident (German): “You can’t always have more and more and always say that is what industry and economic growth needs. You just have to invest now where you can develop alternatively, develop further, there are already many alternatives.”
SOT, Hans-Werner, Resident (German): “I like that on the one hand we are preserving the relationship with Russia, and on the other hand we need energy in one form or another, and only wind or only bio-electricity is currently just not possible, we also need gas, and so Nord Stream is not a bad solution.”
SOT, Hans-Werner, Resident (German): “There are dependencies around the world, but that we are directly dependent is not right. We always have other partners from whom we can get energy when we want to, and so that (Russia) is a partner like any other.”
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