Senator says US has 2 months to kill Nord Stream with sanctions

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (PRIME) -- The U.S. has about two months left to stop construction of Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream with sanctions or a draft law, Republican Senator Ted Cruz said on Thursday.

"Our window for getting this done is rapidly shrinking. Our window for getting this done - the current projections are the pipeline will be completed by January, which means we have maybe two months to get this done,” Cruz said.

He added that a bipartisan draft law had been approved by the Senate committee for foreign affairs and by the House of Representatives. The presidential administration is separately discussing applying the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) against Nord Stream-2.

The Nord Stream-2 project envisages construction of two lines of a natural gas pipeline with an annual capacity of up to 55 billion cubic meters, running from the Russian shore to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Russian gas giant Gazprom is implementing the project together with Germany’s E.ON and BASF, Royal Dutch Shell, OMV, and France’s Engie. The length of the pipeline’s route exceeds 1,200 kilometers.

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