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October 15th, 2013, 11:04 AM
The European Commission confirmed on Monday an EU priority list of energy projects, which Slovenian officials agree no longer includes the Italy-planned gas terminal in Aqulinia just off the Slovenian border. A terminal is envisaged in the north Adriatic, Italy can however only pick the location with Slovenian consent.
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Member states and the European Parliament can no longer change but only accept or reject this final list, which comes after coordination on a preliminary list that was opposed by Slovenia over containing a gas terminal in the north Adriatic.
Spatial Planning Minister Samo Omerzel said in July that this denoted the project in the Gulf of Trieste, which Slovenia has been opposing for environmental and socio-economic reasons.
While this meant that Slovenia could not nod to the original list, the Infrastructure and Spatial Planning Ministry explained last Friday that it had subsequently reached a compromise solution with Italy and the European Commission which says "Italy will only be able to to set the location of the terminal in agreement with Slovenia".
Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek said today that the list is "proof that Slovenia's arguments, backed with negative opinions of the civil society and last but not least also of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, convinced the European Commission that the mentioned terminal is environmentally problematic".
She said that while Slovenia agreed that energy diversification in important, the decision on the location of the terminal needs to be weighed carefully and consider all environmental and other cross-border impacts.
[I]Source. (http://goo.gl/NNFtEQ)
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Member states and the European Parliament can no longer change but only accept or reject this final list, which comes after coordination on a preliminary list that was opposed by Slovenia over containing a gas terminal in the north Adriatic.
Spatial Planning Minister Samo Omerzel said in July that this denoted the project in the Gulf of Trieste, which Slovenia has been opposing for environmental and socio-economic reasons.
While this meant that Slovenia could not nod to the original list, the Infrastructure and Spatial Planning Ministry explained last Friday that it had subsequently reached a compromise solution with Italy and the European Commission which says "Italy will only be able to to set the location of the terminal in agreement with Slovenia".
Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek said today that the list is "proof that Slovenia's arguments, backed with negative opinions of the civil society and last but not least also of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, convinced the European Commission that the mentioned terminal is environmentally problematic".
She said that while Slovenia agreed that energy diversification in important, the decision on the location of the terminal needs to be weighed carefully and consider all environmental and other cross-border impacts.
[I]Source. (http://goo.gl/NNFtEQ)