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Danes lift sailing ban in Nord Stream pipeline leak area
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<span
class="Timestamp Component-root-0-2-23 null null" data-key="timestamp"
data-source="2023-04-20T13:47:15Z"
title="2023-04-20 13:47:15 - Thu Apr 20 2023 13:47:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)">April
20, 2023 GMT
FILE - In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, a leak from Nord
Stream 2 is seen, on Sept. 28, 2022. Danish Maritime Authority said
Thursday that it was removing a sailing ban in the Baltic Sea area
around the leaks caused by explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream
gas pipelines last year.The government agency maintained the restriction
areas where “anchoring, fishing and work on the seabed are discouraged
within a distance of 1 nautical mile from the leak positions due to
underwater obstacles.” (Swedish Coast Guard via AP, File)
FILE - In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, a leak from Nord
Stream 2 is seen, on Sept. 28, 2022. Danish Maritime Authority said
Thursday that it was removing a sailing ban in the Baltic Sea area
around the leaks caused by explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream
gas pipelines last year.The government agency maintained the restriction
areas where “anchoring, fishing and work on the seabed are discouraged
within a distance of 1 nautical mile from the leak positions due to
underwater obstacles.” (Swedish Coast Guard via AP, File)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish Maritime Authority said Thursday
that it was lifting a ban on sailing in the area of the Baltic Sea where
gas leaked after the explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream
pipelines last year.
However, the agency said it was maintaining the restriction in areas
where “anchoring, fishing and work on the seabed are discouraged within
a distance of 1 nautical mile from the leak positions due to underwater
obstacles.”
Shortly after the leaks, the agency issued a navigation warning and
established a prohibited area to ensure ships did not sail nearby.
A total of four gas leaks were discovered on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas
pipelines that run from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, on
Sept. 26 and 27 respectively.
The leaks were deemed an act of sabotage. Earlier this month,
Swedish prosecutors said
a state actor was the most likely culprit. However, they cautioned that
the identity of the perpetrator was still unclear.
In March 2023,
a German media investigation
quoted unnamed officials as saying that five men and a woman used a
yacht hired by a Ukrainian-owned company in Poland to carry out the
attack. The Ukrainian government has denied involvement.
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Two of the leaks were in the Swedish economic zone, northeast of the
Danish island of Bornholm, and two in the Danish economic zone,
southeast of Bornholm. All were outside national waters.
Both Swedish and Danish seismic measurements showed that explosions took
place a few hours before the leaks were discovered.
Authorities and investigators in Denmark, Sweden and other countries
early on suspected the explosions were deliberate attacks and consider
them sabotage. The pipelines were not operational at the time, due to
disputes between Russia and the European Union amid the war in Ukraine.
The United States and some of its allies have long criticized the
pipelines, warning that they posed a risk to Europe’s energy security by
increasing the continent’s dependence on Russian gas.
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