On Sept. 13, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry told his counterpart in Moscow, Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak, that the United States could impose sanctions on the German-Russian pipeline project Nord Stream 2, which would make Europe even more dependent on Russian gas. Today, Washington has two unprecedented tools to accomplish its long-term aim of easing Europe’s vulnerability to Russian energy influence: 1) the threat of sanctions on the Kremlin’s pipeline project; and 2) the ability to export American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.
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Agnia Grigas: Russian gas and the case for sanctions
The first pipes producedby EUROPIPE GmbHfor the Nord Stream 2project were deliveredon Oct. 27, 2016, by railto the German logisticshub in Mukran, on theisland of Rügen.
