Baltic Pipe work halts after Denmark withdraws permit Jun 3, 2021 5:15:pm Summary by: Joseph Murphy Posted in: Baltic Pipe work halts after Denmark withdraws permit Denmark's environmental and food appeals board has repealed a construction permit for the Baltic Pipe, which will connect Poland's gas market with fields offshore Norway, over concerns about its impact on protected bat and mice species, Danish gas grid operator Energinet reported on June 3. The contract was issued in July 2019, according to Energinet, which said it was "surprised" by the ruling by the appeals board. "When we received the permit back in 2019 it was specified that we had to develop several remedial measures to secure good living conditions for the dormice, Nordic birch mice and bats, that live in some of the areas Baltic Pipe will pass through," Energinet's vice president of projects, Marian Kaagh, said in a statement. "Since then, we have been working on and implemented these measures, to protect the animals. The appeals board has ruled that all of these measures should have been described more thoroughly, before the permit was given."