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Satire for Sanity
Who? Big U.S. corps had substantial investments in Russia, and it was corps like Exxon who were the contractors on all the pipeline deals, From Red China to Russia to Europe. Putin was literally getting away with murder, and in several countries, including the U.S. Britain, and others. That's why the GOP establishment backs Putin, he's as corrupt as they are, one of them.
Blackstone alone had over $100 billion in Russia, but only $20 billion in Ukraine, It ain't rocket science t pick which side they were on and lobbying for.
Who We Are - Nord Stream AG
Nord Stream is a natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. The pipeline is a key factor in securing energy security in Europe.
www.nord-stream.com
'The five shareholders of the Nord Stream consortium are Gazprom international projects North 1 LLC (Gazprom Group company), Wintershall Dea AG, PEG Infrastruktur AG (E. ON), N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie and ENGIE.'
Contractors
[edit]Pioneering Spirit was one of the ships involved in pipelaying.
Nord Stream 2 was laid by Allseas using pipe-laying vessels Pioneering Spirit and Solitaire,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2#cite_note-49"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a> except the part of the German offshore section which was laid by Saipem's pipe-laying vessel C10.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2#cite_note-nsenergy-50"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a> Pipes were manufactured by EUROPIPE, OMK and the Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant (Chelpipe), and were coated by Wasco Coatings Europe. Blue Water Shipping handled the transportation and storage of pipeline segments in Germany, Finland and Sweden for Wasco. A joint venture of Boskalis and Van Oord did rock placement at the preparatory stage of construction. Kvaerner did the civil and mechanical engineering of the onshore facilities in Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2#cite_note-nsenergy-50"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a>