Canada’s government said it would permit the return of a turbine to Germany that’s needed to operate a key Russian pipeline, a step intended to help Berlin ease a natural-gas shortage that has sent prices soaring but one that was taken over the objections of Ukraine.
Russia last month slashed natural gas flows through the pipeline, Nord Stream 1, which connects Germany’s northern coast with Russian gas fields, saying Canada had not returned the turbine “in due time.” Siemens Energy, the Munich-based maker of the turbine, largely confirmed a statement from Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, that the turbine was essential to providing the amount of gas normally sent to Germany.
