Post by Wayne Hall on Sept 12, 2015 6:10:55 GMT -5
Tassos Kromydas wrote at the European Green Party’s Facebook site:
SYRIZA's government in Greece plans the country's energy future exclusively on lignite, natural gas and oil drilling on sea and land, new natural gas pipelines (from Russia-Turkey and from Cyprus) and LNG terminals.
Read a brief on SYRIZA's lignite plans by WWF-Greece's climate expert.
www.wwf.gr/crisis-watch/crisis-watch/energy-climate/10-energy-climate/ptolemaida-v-a-new-economic-disaster-in-the-making
Question from W.H. Any comments on possible hidden agendas in this critique of the government’s energy policies?
www.wwf.gr/crisis-watch/crisis-watch/energy-climate/10-energy-climate/ptolemaida-v-a-new-economic-disaster-in-the-making
Response from Eleni Tsigante:
Ptolemaida is home to Greece's lignite mining, of which we have HUGE reserves and accounted for our cheap electricity before.
Germany dumped all its out of date first generation soar/wind energy equipment on Greece as part of the deals preceding & surrounding MOU1 and
insisted we close the biggest lignite plants, thus skyrocketing electricity costs.
Lignite pollutes but this is moderate. Greece for now should return to lignite electricity since it is cheap, efficient & homegrown. Greece would
therefore control 100% of a vital resource.
German firms were poised to buy PPE thus controlling Greek electricity market. SYRIZA cancelled this.
So this report from WWF is German Troika-driven propaganda for German financial domination of a Greek utility / necessity using climate change as the excuse.
Comment from WH:
This is all part of a political approach that aims at replacing the present SYRIZA-ANEL government with a SYRIZA minus the “Left” and minus the “Right” (ANEL) and in coalition with Potami.
So returning to “normal politics”.
SYRIZA's government in Greece plans the country's energy future exclusively on lignite, natural gas and oil drilling on sea and land, new natural gas pipelines (from Russia-Turkey and from Cyprus) and LNG terminals.
Read a brief on SYRIZA's lignite plans by WWF-Greece's climate expert.
www.wwf.gr/crisis-watch/crisis-watch/energy-climate/10-energy-climate/ptolemaida-v-a-new-economic-disaster-in-the-making
Question from W.H. Any comments on possible hidden agendas in this critique of the government’s energy policies?
www.wwf.gr/crisis-watch/crisis-watch/energy-climate/10-energy-climate/ptolemaida-v-a-new-economic-disaster-in-the-making
Response from Eleni Tsigante:
Ptolemaida is home to Greece's lignite mining, of which we have HUGE reserves and accounted for our cheap electricity before.
Germany dumped all its out of date first generation soar/wind energy equipment on Greece as part of the deals preceding & surrounding MOU1 and
insisted we close the biggest lignite plants, thus skyrocketing electricity costs.
Lignite pollutes but this is moderate. Greece for now should return to lignite electricity since it is cheap, efficient & homegrown. Greece would
therefore control 100% of a vital resource.
German firms were poised to buy PPE thus controlling Greek electricity market. SYRIZA cancelled this.
So this report from WWF is German Troika-driven propaganda for German financial domination of a Greek utility / necessity using climate change as the excuse.
Comment from WH:
This is all part of a political approach that aims at replacing the present SYRIZA-ANEL government with a SYRIZA minus the “Left” and minus the “Right” (ANEL) and in coalition with Potami.
So returning to “normal politics”.