Berlin (Reuters) – The way is clear for the delivery of the Siemens turbine for the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which will be serviced in Canada: According to government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, the federal government has received “positive signals” from the Canadian government that the turbine from Siemens Energy is delivered.
He thus confirmed a Reuters report. According to information from Reuters from government circles, the turbine will not be delivered directly to the Russian energy company Gazprom, but initially to Germany. The background is that this makes it easier for the Canadian government to decide on extradition. The government in Ottawa had feared violating the Western sanctions imposed on Russia for the attack on Ukraine. Siemens Energy did not want to comment on the subject.
The Russian government justified the throttling of gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline through the Baltic Sea with technical reasons and the reference to the missing turbine. However, Chancellor Olaf Scholz had emphasized several times that he considered this to be an excuse and that Russia was using gas supplies as a political weapon. The federal government had argued that the turbine should nevertheless be used again so that the Russian government could no longer invoke the alleged technical problem. The cut in gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 had led to a wave of emergency measures by the German government. Maintenance work on the pipeline will begin on Monday and is expected to last ten days.
On Friday, Russia rejected allegations that the lack of a turbine in need of repair was just a pretext for reduced gas supplies to Europe. Russia will increase gas supplies to Europe again if the turbine repaired in Canada is returned, government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Nobody invented any repairs.
According to an official at the Ministry of Energy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian government is opposed to the turbine being delivered. “The sanctions prohibit the transfer of any gas-related equipment,” the Energy Department official told Reuters. Appeals will be made to other European governments. Russian gas is routed west not only through Nord Stream 1, but also through Ukraine.
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