United States Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Tuesday that a sanctions bill putting onerous restrictions on companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 project would come in the `not too distant future.“
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has come under fire from the United States and several eastern European. Nordic and Baltic Sea countries which fear it will increase the European Union`s reliance on Russian gas.
`The opposition to Nord Stream 2 is still very much alive and well in the United States.` Perry told a briefing on a visit to Kiev for the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
`The United States Senate is going to pass a bill. the House is going to approve it. and it`s going to go to the President and he`s going to sign it. that is going to put sanctions on Nord Stream 2.`