Turkish Stream a “fairy tale” - Janez Kopac

Russia's plans for the Turkish Stream pipeline are “a fairy tale,” Janez Kopac, director of the Energy Community Secretariat told the members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Energy (ITRE) on 6 May. Regarding Gazprom’s stated aim of starting gas deliveries via the pipeline in December 2016, Kopac said “it will be impossible to build it in the timeline announced”. “There’s no one who will invest into the construction of this pipeline that will end in the middle of nowhere,”…