The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has authorised the 10 bcm/year gas pipeline Baltic Pipe to restart construction in selected areas in the country. The project will be delayed by 3 months from October 2022 to the end of 2022. The Baltic Pipe project is a proposed gas pipeline project between Denmark and Poland, which secured an environmental permit to build an onshore section across Denmark in July 2019. Earlier in June 2021, the Danish Environmental and Food Appeals Board cancelled the permit for the pipeline project on land, due to environmental concerns over the local fauna.
The project is developed by the Polish and Danish gas transmission system operators (TSOs) Gaz-System and Energinet.dk, which made a positive investment decision for the development of the €1.6bn project in December 2018. In late April 2020, Gaz-System awarded a €280m contract to Saipem to build a section of the project. The gas pipeline would be made of five parts: one offshore pipeline in the North Sea between the Norwegian and the Danish gas transmission systems across 105-110 km, then a 210-230 km gas transmission section and a compressor station onshore Denmark, a 275-km offshore pipeline between Denmark and Poland across the Baltic Sea and a 230-340 km onshore gas transmission pipeline in Poland.