Outgoing Bulgaria Govt Boosts Status of Gas Pipeline Links

Energy | July 9, 2009, Thursday // 17:59|  views

The final meeting of the Stanishev cabinet took place Thursday, July 9, 2009. Photo by BGNES

During its last session Thursday, Bulgaria's outgoing three-way coalition government voted to boost the status of several projected gas pipeline links.

By declaring these pipelines "Objects of National Importance", the government is aiming to speed up the various legal procedures for their construction.

The measure decision refers to several pipelines intended to connect Bulgaria's gas network to those of its neighbors Greece (Komotini-Dimitrovgrad-Stara Zagora), Romania (Silistra-Ruse-Giurgiu), and Turkey (the pipeline to the Lozents station in the Southeast Bulgaria).

The government's idea is to build these links in order to avoid a repetition of the January gas crisis when Russian gas supplies for Bulgaria were cut off, and the country had no way of getting gas from elsewhere simply because its network was not connected to those of its neighbors.

The gas pipeline from Bulgaria's only storage facility at Chiren to the towns of Kozloduy and Oryahovo in Northwest Bulgaria is also on the "Objects of National Importance" list.

Earlier, the Bulgarian government declared Sofia Airport, Danube Bridge II, the Plovdiv-Svilengrad Railway, and the Trakiya Highway "Objects of National Importance" in order to have legal grounds to speed up the land expropriation procedures, which appear to be the main stumbling block for the construction of large infrastructure projects in Bulgaria.

 

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