Bulgaria GERB Govt May Cancel Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipeline

Energy | July 21, 2009, Tuesday // 09:11|  views

"Burgas Does Not Believe Moscow", reads the banner at a recent protest in Burgas against the planned Russian-sponsored pipeline. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's new government of the GERB party might be ready to call off the project for the construction of the Russian-sponsored Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipeline.

This became clear from a statement of Rosen Plevneliev, the most likely Regional Development Minister in the future GERB cabinet.

"We have seen no reasonable grounds for the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project, and we have no intention to carry out projects that are ends in themselves", Plevneliev told the Bulgarian National Radio Tuesday morning.

Upon winning the recent Parliamentary Elections, the GERB leader Borisov requested from the outgoing Minister of Energy and Economy Dimitrov that all work on the large-scale energy projects of the previous government be terminated.

The Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipeline is supposed to transport Russian oil to Greece circumscribing the Bosphorus. The Bulgarian Black Sea municipalities of Burgas, Pomorie, and Sozopol have voted against the project in local referendums over environmental concerns.

The share of the participants in the project is 51% for Russia, and 24,5% for each Bulgaria and Greece.

 

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Tags: GERB, Rosen Plevneliev, Minister of Regional Development, Burgas-Alexandroupolis, oil, pipeline, Russia, greece

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