Emergency Exploration of the Cave as a Solution to the Prevention of Darkness

Import prices at the end are completely covered by Kosovo citizens, as the same goes into energy tariffs.

The emergency created by the energy sector comes after KEK's failure and other institutions to complete the process of displacementing Shipilella residents.

And this delay is not only because of KEK, but there are citizens who have built illegal houses to take advantage of the shift process, the Obilic Community, and the respective ministries.

“Life in Kosovo“has secured paperwork exchanged amid institutions attempting to find an emergency solution to prevent power shortages.

In addition to the paperwork exchanged among the institutions, in the first part of July, a meeting of all actsmen at the Office of the Prime Minister was held, in which the emergency solution was discussed.

After this meeting, the Kosovo Energy Corporation in a letter originally submitted to the chairman of the Obiliki municipality and later to other institutions, including the prime minister's office, has sought to become the emergency” of the 8 houses that are close to the mine.

This KEK requirement is based on the situation on the ground caused by the work of the KEK explorers in the vicinity of these homes, exceeding the limits imposed on the law on mine work near settlements.

In a letter the manager, Arben Djukaj, has sent to the mayor of the Obilic municipality, says that if these eight houses are not evacuated then there is risk of power failure.

“Those (8 houses) are now on the first line of further promotion of jobs in the removal of the workshop and, as a result, if the same ones do not leave, will seriously jeopardise the overall geotechnical and technological stability and, above all, will be jeopardised even fuel supply for electricity production”, the Djukate sign said.

This letter was submitted on 29 June 2017. He has continued to write paperwork in terms of other institutions.

Based on the paperwork, the chairman of the Obilics municipality, Xhafer Gashi, has written to the Emergency Management Agency to start risk assessments on the ground and preventive measures.

Arben Djukaj has indicated the importance of evacuation of these eight houses in a very short term. It says that the distance between excavers and these houses, which are uninhabitable, is less than the distance set with the laws in power.

But Djukaj says that with these homes evacuated, KEK is allowed to operate for two more months.

During these two months we will operate only on KEK property and we will not affect any of the private properties. This is an emergency solution that gives us time to complete in the best way the expropriation of these properties needed for normal mining operation”, Djukaj told “Life in Kosovo“.

The paper has contacted Agency for Emergency Management Director Fadil Kodra, who has said there is an attempt to escape from competence in this case.

Kodra has said the agency he runs does not deal with shifts and expropriations. He says this case belongs to the Ministry of Environment and Space Planning. He even insists that even in emergency cases, as KEK officials are saying, this agency is not working on relocation.

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But, in the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, they say this minister has fulfilled its obligations in terms of the process of displacement and expropriation.

We have submitted the proposal for Government as we present it, and the decision has been made by the Government. But for this competent evacuation, the Agency for Emergency Management” told “Gaseta JNK”, Refik Ramaj, chief of the Environment and Spatial Planning Minister's cabinet.

He even in a letter submitted to institutions on behalf of the minister and removed responsibility from this minister.

<x0) MMPH, due to its competencies defined with the above-determine documents, finds that the evacuation process of 8 (eight) houses, based on the Revaluation Report, falls into the responsibility of the Emergency Management Agency that operates under the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, has written Ramaj on behalf of Minister Ferat Shala.

He has explained the procedures he must follow KEK up until taking over the property use of the ship's residents.

After conducting the evacuation process, parallel to this process, KEK sh.a., it should do the displacement procedure and if residents do not accept the process of displacement, then KEK, should apply for expropriation near MMPH, which then develops the process of conform expropriation. 03 L-139 for the Exploration of the Realistic Property with changes and fulfillments made with Law No. 03/L-205” wrote Ramaj.

But at a meeting Prime Minister Isa Mustafa has had with KEK's director, Environment Minister Ferat Shala and Economic Development Minister Blerand Stavileci has hinted that the Kosovo government at Wednesday's meeting may seek the emergency evacuation of these eight homes.

This issue will also be discussed at tomorrow's meeting of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, where the commitment of other emergency and security institutions will be required to avoid any evental hazard”, said the Government of the Republic of Kosovo communiqué.

Shipilla and Haden had been declared areas of interest since 2004, to be reconfirmed once again in 2009. KEK had decided to avoid Haden and ask her to head towards Shippitula, which did not have many houses built. But in the mid - 2010 ' s until 2015, more than 100 homes have been built on this section, all illegally.