/ world today news/ There is nothing dramatic in the “South Stream” project. In the energy sector, deficits of 500-600 million are generated annually in the NEK, due to the suspension of the “Belene” project. The price of electricity is staying lower and action needs to be taken as soon as possible before the bubble bursts.
These are some of the highlights in the interview of the former Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov, now the representative of Bulgaria in “Lukoil”, in the morning block of bTV.
In every intergovernmental agreement on such large projects, there is necessarily a clause in which it is written that the state provides full assistance in the construction of the project, including institutional, normative and so on. I am sure that there is such a clause in the South Stream agreement.
Secondly, if a country has made a commitment to provide such assistance, then who could be the one to propose the necessary changes in the law or other normative documents other than those who actually deal with the project or the problem – that is “South Stream Bulgaria” and “South Stream Transport”, and respectively BEH. These are the structures that proposed these changes, Ovcharov also said.
Naturally, big companies constantly try to influence the decisions of governments and individual ministers on every single project in which they have or may have an interest. I do not see anything tragic for a company that implements a project to propose specific changes in a given bill in order to facilitate the work on the implementation of the relevant project, said Rumen Ovcharov.
He denied having a contract for an illegal pipeline attached to South Stream.
Based on common sense, I don’t see anything dramatic in the South Stream project. The question is whether Bulgaria should receive the transit fee or not. I think we should receive it.
The former energy minister advised to ask the people who signed them about the specific contracts. According to him, the claims that the funds paid so far for “Belene” are only for consulting services are false. “In the energy sector, deficits of 500-600 million are generated annually in NEK. One of the reasons is the suspension of the “Belene” project. He blamed the previous government of Boyko Borisov for this.
The price of electricity remains lower at the moment, Ovcharov admitted, but refused to comment on what the real price is at the moment. I am not part of the agreements, I am part of the implementation of these agreements, emphasized Ovcharov. According to him, the measures taken by the government are in the right direction. Action needs to be taken as soon as possible before the low electricity bill bubble bursts. Rumen Ovcharov predicts that this will happen within 3 months.
The former energy minister announced that we are facing periods of many elections. The absurd thing is that Boyko Borisov was involved in the investigation of the Jacuzzis in “Toplofikatsia” and the embezzlement of the former head of the company, Valentin Dimitrov, which led to the collapse of people’s trust in “Toplofikatsia” and refused to many people to pay their bills and they give the money to similar thieves, as the company managers were presented to the media. He hinted that this opened the way for the monopoly of the ERPs. At the same time, the inspection bodies did their job very well. Ovcharov pointed out that this was a typical example of GERB’s black PR.
The task of the state representative in the supervision of “Lukoil” is to monitor the production, that there are no production stops, that there are no changes in the volumes of production, that is, to preserve the jobs in the volumes in which they were, noted Ovcharov. Through my At that time, not only the largest investment in “Lukoil Bulgaria”, but also in Bulgaria as a whole, and in any refinery in Europe, was realized there. So from that point of view, I think I’ve done my job, he stated. The bubble with the retention of the price of electricity will burst sooner or later, the question is that measures must be taken and as quickly as possible, and the time for such actions is in the next three to four months, said Rumen Ovcharov.
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