Bloomberg: Finland Must Boost Gas Competition by Joining European Network
should strive to connect its natural gas network to Central Europe’s via Estonia to create competition in the industry, the Finnish economy ministry said.
Finland needs to cooperate with Estonia to get European Union funding to build a port terminal in the Gulf of Finland and for a gas pipeline through Estonia, the government said in a statement today.
A competitive gas market in Finland hasn’t been possible so far because the country is geographically reliant on Russia, whose OAO Gazprom has been the sole supplier of Finnish gas for almost four decades now. MORE