A plan for multiple large European energy companies to team up to build a second natural-gas pipeline from Russia to Germany has collapsed, but the impact on the overall project was unclear. An application with Poland’s competition authority to form a joint venture to build a pipeline called Nord Stream 2 was withdrawn in the face of opposition from Warsaw, where the deal was seen as giving Russia greater sway over Polish energy supplies.
Wall Street Journal: Plan for joint venture to build gas pipeline from Russia to Germany falters
A Nord Stream pipeline employee stands on October 8, 2012 near a platform overlooking the diagnostic cleaning plant before the opening ceremony of the North Stream second gas link in Portovaya bay, some 60 kms from the town of Vyborg in northwestern Russia.
