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Radio Poland: Environmental group in push to stop Nord Stream 2 in Finland

By Radio Poland.

Published May 16, 2018. Updated May 16 at 2:29 pm

View of the Nordstream gas pipeline terminal prior to an inaugural ceremony for the first of Nord Stream's twin 1,224 kilometre gas pipeline through the baltic sea, in Lubmin, Nov. 8, 2011.

Photo by AFP

The Finnish government in early April gave the go-ahead to the construction of the contested Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany through Finland’s economic zone.

The pipeline, which would run for 374 kilometers through Finland’s economic zone in the Baltic Sea, is a controversial project opposed by Poland and several other countries.