:format(jpg):watermark(cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/5IDEBLR7ERC5TMAPLOHS63MVNM.png,0,30,0)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/BQEFHMP43VCN5MMREY7L24HKQE.jpg "De Wever: “We are so in trouble that we are ready to give subsidies to Walloon gas power stations”")
To implement the plan to guarantee security of electricity supply, the federal government still lacks a new gas-fired power station. The Engie project selected within the framework of the Capacity Remuneration Mechanism (CRM), namely a gas-fired power station in Vilvoorde, faces the refusal of a permit by the Flemish Minister of the Environment, Zuhal Demir (N-VA) .
Engie announced that she would apply for a new permit. If that fails, the federal government agreed on Thursday that it could select another project provided it has a permit. Projects in Wallonia (in addition to the one already selected from Awirs in Liège, also from Engie) are mentioned. However, to read Mr. De Wever, projects also exist in Flanders even if the Flemish nationalist still defends the extension of two nuclear reactors, which, according to him, would have already enabled Belgium to be much further in this file.
“In the scenario of the extension of the two most recent reactors (Doel 4 and Tihange 3), a new gas-fired power station would have been necessary anyway. There is already one approved in Ghent. And I think the dossier of Luc Tack, who applied for a suitable permit for a gas-fired power station in Tessenderlo (Limburg), is not lost in advance. The supply would have been guaranteed and Belgium would have found itself on the European train where nuclear energy is seen more and more as green energy. Now we are in such a bad way that we are apparently ready to pass Engie and give subsidies to Walloon gas power plants to solve the problem “, said Mr. From Wever.
As for Mrs Demir’s decision to refuse the Vilvoorde permit, it was preceded by a refusal at first instance by the deputation of Flemish Brabant in which the Open Vld also sits, noted the nationalist president. “Besides, there is still no one who came to tell me in the face that Demir’s decision to refuse the permit was not correct,” he added.
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