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"Mr President, the gas pipeline project is founded on three fundamental errors. It is environmentally wrong: billions are being invested in fossil fuel instead of renewable energy, and it will be environmentally destructive and give rise to enormous quantities of sludge. When the 10-km-long Öresund Bridge was built, much more toxic sludge was carted away than had been expected. This pipeline is over 1 000 km long. It will be an environmental disaster, with PCBs, DDT and chemical pesticides on the seabed.
It is founded on selfishness instead of solidarity. Germany and Russia are acting over the heads of other countries, which will not be offered any gas, and that too is dreadful. Even worse: it is undemocratic. It is being laid in the sea in order to prevent landowners from blocking the pipeline. It is being laid in the sea because perhaps only a few governments can say ‘no’ where it passes through their territorial waters. It is you, Commissioner, who have the right according to the Espoo Convention to defend the non-territorial part of the Baltic. It is you, only you, who can stand up for the rights of the landowners under the Espoo Convention and demand alternative routes."@en1
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