With the thermal power plant “, new Kosovo” will be expensive

The head of the Department for Tarifa and Chemme at the Ymer Fejzullahu Energy Regulatory Office said today that of 60 euros, the current price for megawatts will be raised to 90 euros as the new Kosovo “office starts operating.

This data has been made public during a discussion organised by the Kosovar consortium of the Sustainable Civil Development Society(KOSID) on the subject “The World Bank's withdrawal from the coal investments”.

The regulator has made a preliminary assessment, and it has been said that over 50 per cent is the impact expected in the year when new Kosovo is entered into operation”, Fejzullah stressed.

KOSID co-founder Haki Abazi said that the World Bank's withdrawal from financial support for the “new Kosovo” project is the shooting and highly important decision. One of the reasons for the withdrawal of BB from the new “Kosovo “is the environmental and social issue.

Ahaz has said that the alternative to energy production would be investment in renewable energy and the exploitation of interconcition with Albania.

He has said coal energy products are harmful to the environment and citizens, because TC “Kosovo A” remains the largest pollutant in Europe.

If you want to connect the environmental process the World Bank has made, which is actually social assessment, three times has been launched and left half, it is never finished. We have followed this process closely. Cosulent delegations have come from Europe, from the United States, and when they've seen what state it is and what impact it has had until the population's shift has never been completed. That is why the World Bank has withdrawn”, Abazi said.

While, Viktor Berisha, said there are legal violations for granting consent to environmental issues to the company “Contour Global” from the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, for which he has also indicted the minister.

The environmental information given according to our studies is a huge violation as far as public involvement and interest parties discussing this environmental assessment now. There are direct violations of Kosovo's laws, and on which we have even filed charges against the Ministry of Environment due to the procedural violations that have occurred”, Berisha has said.

Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Fatmir Matosi stressed that environmental pollution from “Kosova B has the 78m-euro funds for filter change, but according to him, KEK is failing to proceed with this project due to bidding procedures.

Matoshi stressed that all environmental preferences from the Environment Ministry have been given to the company “Contour Global” for the construction of New Kosovo “”. Matoshi said there is no information about the indictment exercised by civil society towards the ministry.

At least officially I'm not informed of the indictment. I'd like to believe that the decision on environmental consent is fair and I want to invite the Court to handle this indictment urgently. We too make indictments, we have inspectors, we make different indictments from time to time, we have made different pollutants, we have made KEK”, Matosh said.

While Diana Berisha from FIQ has also enjoyed the WB decision to withdraw from the “New Kosovo” project.

Berisha stressed that among the reasons for withdrawing the BB from new Kosovo is also planning for the unaware shift of Hades residents.

The World Bank's <x0). This is a joint victory with KOSID”, Berisha said.

Otherwise, the government of Kosovo has warned that building the new “Kosovo project will begin this year.