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No moratorium on renewable energy investments - Bulgarian Economy Minister
"You can be assured there will not be a moratorium on future investments in renewable energy," Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said in reply to questions from a representative of the German company Envision Energy.
"We, at the Economy Ministry think these projects should not be frozen, but more restrictions should be implemented for certain requirements in the approval process," Traikov was quoted as saying by Bulgarian daily Dnevnik on January 7 2010.
Traikov was answering questions from the German company, which is planning to build the second largest wind energy park in Bulgaria, at a luncheon with the German-Bulgarian Industrial Trade Chamber, Dnevnik said.
In December 2009, Environment Minister Nona Karadjova said the country might impose a six-month moratorium on renewable energy projects that were in the initial phase of their development, citing large numbers of installations, installations in protected areas and large numbers of requests for expropriation of agricultural land.
According to Traikov, it was not incidental that Karadjova had used the word moratorium only once, at the beginning of discussions about the problems.
"The intention to introduce a temporary moratorium was expressed in response to possible infringement procedures with which the European Commission threatened Bulgaria," Traikov said.
The issue of investments in renewable energy would on the agenda for a meeting on January 13 involving the ministries of economy and energy, environment and agriculture.
"We, at the Economy Ministry think these projects should not be frozen, but more restrictions should be implemented for certain requirements in the approval process," Traikov was quoted as saying by Bulgarian daily Dnevnik on January 7 2010.
Traikov was answering questions from the German company, which is planning to build the second largest wind energy park in Bulgaria, at a luncheon with the German-Bulgarian Industrial Trade Chamber, Dnevnik said.
In December 2009, Environment Minister Nona Karadjova said the country might impose a six-month moratorium on renewable energy projects that were in the initial phase of their development, citing large numbers of installations, installations in protected areas and large numbers of requests for expropriation of agricultural land.
According to Traikov, it was not incidental that Karadjova had used the word moratorium only once, at the beginning of discussions about the problems.
"The intention to introduce a temporary moratorium was expressed in response to possible infringement procedures with which the European Commission threatened Bulgaria," Traikov said.
The issue of investments in renewable energy would on the agenda for a meeting on January 13 involving the ministries of economy and energy, environment and agriculture.
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It may be that this issue is one of repetition here but there are many sources of renewable energy around other than wind.
You must consider that as a net importer of Fossil Fuels - particularly Oil - that manufacturing a home base of renewable liquid fuels must be a priority. I know of one company that is wanting to pursue the development of the biofuel Ethanol in Bulgaria and would be happy to work with the Government and the Municipalities to take on the conversion of its Municipal Solid Waste for this purpose and in [...]
Read the full comment so doing it would meet more than 15% of the country's need for transport fuel needs. And the process used has been in operation since 1819, nothing fancy just simple plain engineering - all of which could be made in Bulgaria.
This would not despoil the environment with these eyesores and it would be far better for the economy. Similarly these plants would not create a ''millstone around the necks'' of the Taxpayers or create any toxic smokes and residues that would be the case with the incineration-style projects!
So what about it! Can we have some support here!
The VVD (Dutch liberal party) wants to stop wind farms in the Netherlands. According to the Liberals the unprofitable mills are maintained by billions of Euros in subsidies. Windmills are unprofitable and slurping grant Forty one billion VVD MP Halbe Zijlstra states this in an opinion article on the weblog The daily standard. According to Zijlstra in Holland the government has to pay subsidies between twenty five and forty billion euro in the next twenty years. This "enormous flows of money" according to him, should be spending on research into truly sustainable energy. The VVD is according Zijlstra not against [...]
Read the full comment green energy. "We are even great supporter of sustainability”. It is not only the promise of energy is cheaper, but also supplied independent and not from states exporting oil and gas. But that is never accessible by wind. There is, according to the politicians' new or mature forms of energy required. The VVD recommends that the government makes money available. Research into forms of energy that contribute something to the environment and energy problems that is what we need. So be in time in Bulgaria and stop this nonsense in time.