As US and European Union politicians stepped up efforts to derail Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas export project this week Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, sailed into the Baltic Sea to begin laying deep water sections of the highly controversial pipeline.
Irish Times: Russia forges ahead with gas pipeline despite EU and US opposition
A helicopter flies over the Nordstream gas pipeline terminal prior to an inaugural ceremony for the first of Nord Stream's twin 1,224 kilometre gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea, in Lubmin Nov. 8, 2011.
