German official slams Norway for abandoning hydrogen pipeline

Europe’s largest economy had banked on Norway as its first large-scale supplier of the gas as other pipeline projects with Spain, Portugal and Denmark are expected to take longer. — Bloomberg

BERLIN: A top German government official criticised Norway for giving up on a bilateral hydrogen pipeline project that was key for cleaning up the nation’s dirty industries.

“Of course I’m concerned about this,” Philipp Steinberg, a department head at the economy ministry, said at a Handelsblatt conference in Berlin on Tuesday.