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Article: Finland: Finns approve Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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- July 4, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
Finland s Uusimaa Regional Environment Center has approved the Nord Stream gas pipeline but said more information on potential environmental damage must be supplied by the project s backers, OAO Gazprom, Wintershall, E.On Ruhrgas, and Nederlandse Gasunie.
"We are committed to provide the further information that authorities have asked from us," said Nord Stream spokesman Sebastian Sass, referring to the request by the Uusimaa authority for "further investigations" into pollution damage, maritime safety, and the impact on sea life.
Plans call for the 1,220-km Nord Stream line to extend beneath the Baltic Sea from the Russian port ...