Environment

Nord Stream is fully committed to preserving the Baltic Sea environment

The pipeline has been planned with profound awareness of environmental issues and conditions of the Baltic Sea.

The Baltic Sea is unique in terms of its flora, fauna, salinity, human activities. We have carefully studied these factors and taken them into account in the pipeline routing.

Nord Stream will meet requirements of the national and international legislation and environmental standards, in particular the Espoo and Helsinki Conventions. Comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will be conducted before implementing the project. It will provide best solutions for possible environmental impacts.

The many existing offshore pipelines in the world with thousands of kilometres of pipelines show that, environmentally, offshore solutions offer a real alternative to onshore solutions.