Passing or delaying energy crisis? Kosovo still in danger of facing crisis

In this area of the village of Shippitule, there will become the expansion of a superficial mine for explosion of coal for electricity production for the needs of the Kosovo Energy Corporation.

Out of some 52 hectares of land, which must be expropriated, the Government of Kosovo has so far made the assessment and has made the final decision to expropriate 1.5 hectares.

While, for the rest of the lands in the Government of Kosovo, it has made a decision to review further the demand for public interest in property, which is affected by the implementation of the project.

Finance Ministry spokesman Muharrem Sahini has told Radio Free Europe that the final decision on expropriation has been made for 11 properties.

The assessment has been completed for the Shippitule cadastral area and the cadastral Hades area. The final decision has also been made in which 11 properties for expropriation have entered the final decision. As for the evaluation, it is a space of about 1.5 hectares and eight improvised objects. The financial value, on the other hand, is about 236,000 euros”, Shahini stressed.

Meanwhile, outgoing Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa has sought higher efficiency from the Kosovo Energy Corporation in terms of expropriations at the latest meeting of the Government of Kosovo.

“We need to ask the KEK to eventually prepare all these decisions so that the Government, nor KEK, will come to such an emergency situation, separately now when we are preparing to build the “New Kosovo”, which both the World Bank and investors require to be very efficient and very accurate in the issue of exproprimation, even in matters of population displacement from those properties”, Mustafa declared.

The Kosovo Energy Corporation had said a month earlier that Kosovo could face an energy crisis, due to spending coal reserves on electricity production, and had sought concrete steps to accelerate expropriation procedures for residents.

Procedures for taking these lands to the village of Shipitula and throughout the area of the new mine are done through two documents .Cornosis of policies for relocation and ) Real Earth expropriation.

Some of the residents of this area have now signed the process of relocation policy, without having to take over the land through the expropriation law.

Arben Djukaj, director of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, has told Radio Free Europe that negotiations have continued with residents to sign expropriation agreements.

Some of the residents, Djukaj said, have accepted the offer, but there are residents who have different demands and are driven by someone else to refuse.

He had called on authorities rather than be vigilant and make quick decisions and help the Corporation overcome this challenge.

“KEK wants laws respected, regulations respected and avoided possible evil, as we enter the winter season. We're trying not to get into that situation, but if we don't do our actions conform our demands, then we can come into a bad situation and we're going to deal with that” situation, Djukaj said.

Some of the residents of the village of Shiptilella, with whom Radio Free Europe had spoken, had said they would leave if the Government also valued their lands properly and offered employment.

Qamil doctor from this village, the 128 square metre house, from the authorities in Kosovo, has been prepped to compensate for about 39 thousand euros, for which Mr. Medic said it is a very low value.

He has indicated that he has not yet signed the expropriation agreement, but will do so...