a permit for the north stream to natural gas pipeline from russia to the first pop up of the old stream family runs along the bottom of the baltic sea. from russia to look mean in eastern germany that its sister project running alongside will double capacity of the road which currently stands at fifty five billion cubic metres critics say it will increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is said to lose out most present over half of russian gas exports to the e.u. passed through the country but for how much longer. this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position that the chief transit country for russian energy needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by torture bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi million euro compresses successively replaced but the