Annual Report on Environment Situations in Kosovo adopted for 2020

Minister Lieburn Aliu introduced the findings of this report, which said that as far as air quality is concerned the data is concerned about exceeding maximum values allowed for certain parameters, and this mainly during the winter season.

He said there is currently no program and no regular monitoring of soil quality, while adding that the challenge remains efficient waste management.

“Exploitation of natural resources, the use of stone and other mining resources that is realised through stonebreakers, which is one of the most frequent forms of natural resource use in Kosovo during 2020, have issued 228 stone use licenses and 204 stone reserve research licenses. The data shows that there are also illegal operators dealing with this activity”, Aliu said.

PDK MP Eliza Hoxha has sought to know what is the ministry's plan to improve the situation in the environment.

“Ciles are concrete steps, that I heard more of a situation than we are experiencing in the Kosovo environment, but not even any concrete steps on what we will do. What are we going to do in the idea of air quality that we have every year, and especially in Pristina, that we are leading to maps and these world statistics in winter time, precisely because of the thermal power plant, due to coal heating heat, and because of the inability to expand the heating network with congeneration and other ways, Hoxha said.

Minister Lieburn Aliu said the situation in the environment is serious and that he would like to have more debates on the subject. He experienced criticism regarding water supplies, over which he criticised previous governments.

And from those water capacity that we have these 500 million cubic metres of water, 350 is only Weiman. This has been a constant concern, but it has never been meant to increase capacity, and it has even been designed to divide capacity, as if Weiman were to split up. From the feathers we have today, we have only a new feather in Malisheva, which is empty every time. This was the way water was treated in our country. And when we're talking about the hydropower plants in the concrete case, they're going to be able to talk about environmental and water permits that have been issued, we have court decisions and we have a decision about not giving the last environmental permit to River 2, I'm talking about these of Decani”, he said.

Minister Aliu said he would not submit to the government the spatial draft for Nemuna” National Park, as he pointed out the reasons for this.

I'll show you what the building area is inside the National Park is, it's 13 thousand acres, you know how much this is? So the national park is on the territory of Gjakova, Yunik, Decani, Peja and Istog. The stretch of this park is in the territory of these five municipalities, as if to gather these five urban municipalities as much as they have them, all of them to gather and multiply for two, the construction area of the National Park “Bjeshks and Nemuna” is bigger than that. Two Pejas, two Gjakovas, two Decanas, two Junikas and two Istogas. Now imagine how much water it takes for them, imagine those pipes that receive water from resources should be taken to make the construction of famous tourist villages. I don't bring that plan, and I turn it down and we review it, and we have to draft it differently, but I want to tell you this has been the logic and the way it worked, and it's not easy to change”, he said.