The Finnish Environment Institute will study the situation.
The Finnish Institute of the Environment (Syke) announced that chemical weapons were dumped in the Baltic Sea near the Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Bornholm Basin, the possibility of methane leakage due to these harmful substances is now being studied.
Effects on the environment and the climate of the methane coming out of the Nord Stream pipelines, whose emissions exceed the annual emissions of this gas in Finland, is still unknown. However, the “uncertainty” associated with the burial of chemical weapons and other harmful substances accumulated in sediments on the seabed is emphasized in the institute's message.
Southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm, where the first gas leak was observed from of the “Nordic Stream”, there is one of the most important storages of chemical weapons (Bornholm depression), the Finnish press agency STT reports. dumped in various places of the Baltic Sea.
Read also: Gas output on the damaged “Nord Stream-2” has stopped
Earlier, the UN stated that the Nord Stream accident could lead to the largest methane release in history.
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