BALTIC SEA: Newly Discovered Shipwrecks Found During Nord Stream Construction.

RADIO SWEDEN/   Several previously unknown shipwrecks, a few perhaps as old as the middle ages and others from up to the 1800's, have been found in Swedish waters at the bottom of the Baltic Sea by workers on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

BALTIC SEA: Finns OK Russia's Nordstream Pipeline.

BBC/ Russia cleared the last hurdle to build its 765 mile Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany after a Finnish environmental agency gave its approval. There are worries that the project would stir-up toxins and WW2 munitions lying on the Baltic's sea bed. Russia hopes to pump 55bn cubic meters of gas annually to Germany and other EU countries through Nord Stream.

Eastern Europe Fears New Russian Gas Pipeline.

NYTIMES/
A new Gazprom pipeline called Nord Stream planned under the Baltic Sea is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe.
“Yesterday tanks, today oil,” said Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, a former Polish security chief.
Being able to close one pipeline makes shutoffs to Eastern Europe more likely, said former President Carter aide, Zbigniew Brzezinski. He labels the pipelines a ploy to “separate Central Europe from Western Europe insofar as dependence on Russian energy is concerned.”