Finland has received a promise by the administration of NordStream, the company that is to build an underwater natural gas pipeline from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany, that it would examine the possibility of a more southerly route through the Gulf of Finland.
YLE has learned that Nord Stream is ready to consider a route that bypasses the Russian island of Hogland, or Suursaari, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland on the southern, rather than the northern side.
Finland has long demanded that the pipeline run south of the island - as far as possible from the Finnish mainland. Finland has been worried that dredging the uneven sea bottom on the northern side of Hogland could release sediment containing heavy metals.
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