July 10 () –
The Canadian government will finally deliver to Germany a turbine used to transport gas from Russia that has been undergoing repairs in Canada and whose return has been temporarily suspended as part of the sanctions imposed on Moscow for the war in Ukraine.
The announcement has been made by the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, who has clarified that the piece of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, reconditioned at a Siemens plant in Montreal, will be delivered to German officials and not directly to Russia as planned. originally
Thus, after speaking with its European allies, including Ukraine and Germany, “Canada will grant a revocable and time-limited permit for Siemens Canada to allow the return of repaired Nord Stream 1 turbines to Germany,” Wilkinson has made known in his account. from Twitter.
With this permission, Canada hopes to enhance Europe’s ability to access affordable energy as it moves away from Russian oil and gas, it added.
The minister has argued that, had the turbine been kept, the German economy would have suffered “very significant difficulties, and the Germans themselves will run the risk of not being able to heat their homes as winter approaches.”
The Russian state company Gazprom has drastically reduced gas deliveries to Germany through Nord Stream 1 precisely because of the lack of this turbine, according to its version.
German politicians called this explanation a pretext and accused Russia of an “economic attack”.
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