business associates and even local authorities would be affected by the sanctions gas market expert hi coloma feels this signals that the americans are again taking drastic measures against the project. you know when going to one side in the oval the coelacanths a new sanctions especially show that the american side is looking at this very closely and is willing to impose an obstacle with every move of the project enterprise or the russian side i believe the sanctions have the potential to at least postpone the project for a very long time that was the end of that site so if its. neighboring poland also wants to hinder north stream to it runs its own l.n.g. terminal on its baltic coast and plans to receive liquefied natural gas from qatar or norway warsaw fears that russia will further expand its power with north stream to ultimately use it as a political weapon and economic leverage against the e.u. the us and poland together are pressuring germany to halt the project. that poland and the baltic countries are fundamentally opposed to the north stream to project as it endangers energy securit