SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Baltic Pipe: How Poland is speeding up its exit from Russian gas To compensate for lost Russian imports, Poland is quadrupling its gas import capacity with a pipeline from Norway and an LNG terminal. It could soon be able to help out Berlin scrambling to replace its own Russian gas. About 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Denmark and 75 kilometers north of Germany and Poland, two pipelines meet silently in the dark depths of the Baltic Sea. One is heading from Russia to Germany, the other from Norway to Poland. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russia's newly built Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been mothballed amid sanctions against Moscow over its war in Ukraine. Nord Stream 1 is still supplying gas to Europe but flows have been throttled by Russia in retaliation against the western boycott. Baltic Pipe , however, is on target to start pu