The suspension of new connections to the gas network worried the Prime Minister’s plenipotentiary for the “Clean Air” program, who announces that on Tuesday he will meet representatives of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, PSG and PGNiG. – I will listen to explanations and together we will assess what can be done in order not to block further connections to the network. Yet gas boilers are about 45 percent. implemented projects as part of Clean Air – adds Bartłomiej Orzeł.
Clean air program aims to free Polish towns and villages from smog through subsidies for the replacement of old coal stoves with less-emission heat sources. – The current situation would have disastrous consequences for the implementation of this program – says Orzel.
We were first informed about the case by the Polish Smog Alert, which was reported by worried residents who received refusal from PSG to requests to connect their houses to the gas network. –Applications submitted to the Clean Air program are expected to slow down in the near future – says Andrzej Guła, PAS leader. As he adds, so far half of the beneficiaries of the program are people who replaced the old coal boiler with a gas boiler.
Guła also gives the example of Szczawnica, to which the gas network has recently been connected, and now, due to the lack of new connections, the network will be used to a minimum extent.
