the foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a bill designed to counter the influence of Russia in the energy sector, Interfax reported with reference to American media.
This goes about bill "Energy Security Cooperation with Allied Partners in Europe Act of 2019". it refers To the need "to reduce the dependency of allies and partners of the United States on Russian energy, especially natural gas."
it Also emphasizes the need for strengthening the energy security of Europe and stated the inadmissibility of the use by Russia of energy as a "geopolitical weapon".
the document stresses that the need to "firmly resist "Northern stream 2" as it will have a detrimental impact on the EU's energy security and on the economy of Ukraine and other countries in Central Europe that is currently in the transit of gas."
the document's Authors urged the US President to introduce "five or more types of sanctions" against individuals who make substantial investments in the construction of the "Russian export pipelines".
in addition, the House of representatives of the U.S. Congress approved a document envisaging sanctions against key contractors involved in the construction of the gas pipeline "Nord stream-2" and "Turkish stream".
Sanctions, involving the denial of visas and freezing U.S. assets of the entrepreneurs and companies involved in the project are contained in the bill on defence spending of the United States.
the Main object of sanctions are a company engaged in laying pipe on the seabed, in particular Swiss company Allseas, which owns the world's largest ship-pipelayer Pioneering Spirit. This ship is finishing laying the last section of the pipeline "Nord stream-2", which in Germany will come to the Russian natural gas.
