You may think that the building of a gas pipeline from CentralrnAsia and the Middle East to Europe would be welcomed by all, but the Nabucco Gas Pipeline project is finding it hard tornpass over the diplomatic and practical hurdles.rnPoliticians say it will free Europe from the threat of Russian blackmail over natural gas supplies. The builders say it's viable and that construction will start in 2010. But analysts say the Nabucco Gas Pipeline will be a white elephant initially because there isn't enough gas ready to flow into the pipeline that is supposed to carry about 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year to central Europe.rnThe issue of adequate supplies is only one question that dogs construction of the 3,300-km pipeline from Turkey's eastern borders to the little town of Baumgarten outside Vienna. The project is also beset by the politics of buying gas from Iran, commercial demands of Turkey and the power of Russia.
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