Sweden has expressed concern about the possible damage to the environment by the planned Russian-German gas pipeline under the Baltic sea.
Prime minister Goran Persson has said that the North European Gas Pipeline risked disturbing the waste, including possible mines, on the seabed.
"When you build such a large pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, you stir up a lot of sediment at the bottom, where there are mines, poisons and other things that have been dumped over decades," ...
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