Greek Environment Ministry Okays Bulgaria Gas Link

Greece's Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change has approved a preliminary environmental report on the construction of the gas link that is to connect Komotini to Bulgaria's Stara Zagora.

The gas link will pose limited, short-term and reversible environmental consequences for the region, Greek authorities believe, according to Phantis.

The 180-kilometer (112-mile) link run from Komotini in Greece to Stara Zagora in Bulgaria will be open to ship gas from the Caspian, the Mediterranean, or from a liquefied natural gas terminal in Turkey.

The gas link will have a transportation capability of 3.0 billion cubic metres of gas annually, with an option of rising 5.0 billion. A metric station will be built in Komotini.

The project will be build by Interconnector Greece Bulgaria (ICGB) company, comprising of IGI Poseidon (a joint venture by DEPA and Italy's Edison) and Bulgarian Energy Holding.

Bulgaria moved to link its natural gas grid to that of its neighbors after the January 2009 gas war between Russia and Ukraine, which cut off the Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria for full three weeks leaving it without natural gas in the middle of the winter.

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