As the 1,225 km pipeline approaches Danish waters, Denmark’s official Energy Agency is requesting an environmental assessment of a third route, a process that “will take several months,”

As the 1,225 km pipeline approaches Danish waters, Denmark’s official Energy Agency is requesting an environmental assessment of a third route, a process that “will take several months,” Agency spokesman Ture Falbe-Hansen tells Reuters in Copenhagen. Nord Stream 2 spokesman Mueller told Reuters Thursday the company will evaluate the request but did not say if it would delay the project. Designed to double an existing Russian pipeline along the Baltic seabed, Nord Stream 2 has the approvals of other countries on the route: Russian, Finland, Sweden, and Germany.