4 hours agoKurti sí wants American gas pipes up to Kosovo: To take power from the LNG terminal in Vlora, we're for lignite gas.
Periskopi(14 days ago)
(14 days ago)Shortly after the call of the US Embassy charger Anu Prattipati, for Kosovo to join the American gas pipeline, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, in an interview for Kosovo Public Television Radio one night before the elections, has spoken in detail about his position on this subject.
Kurti has hinted that she does not want the American gas pipes to come up to Kosovo, but that Kosovo will be locked up in the gas terminal, which in Vlora and receive electricity from there through the 400 kilovolt interconction Kosovo connects with Albania.
“Note that we have co-operation with Albania, with ALEPEX, we want to be integrated into the Republic of Albania. Our vision is that we join Albania in the liquid gas terminal in Vlora. Kosovo is willing to invest in the terminal in Vlora and imagine a situation where we could have a stake in Vlora terminal, and there can be liquid gas from outside, turn into electricity and with 400 kilovolts interconction and bring it to us. We don't need to bring it to Kosovo, but we get it from Vlora. Vlora may be the place where Albania and Kosovo are together on liquid gas imported from outside”, Kurti has said in the June 6th interview in RTK.
The VVA chief has said he prefers Kosovo coal to turn into gas rather than for Kosovo to buy gas. Kurti has said that Kosovo is interested in American companies which can make the gasification of lignite that Kosovo has in abundance.
We are very interested in American expertise and American corporations for the gasification of lignite because we have our resources. And I don't think it's in dissonance with the current American administration policy, which doesn't have a distance for using coal as was the preliminary administration”, Kurti added.
The government, headed by Albin Kurti in 2021, had decided not to eventually select the US gas pipeline project financed by the MCC.
Minister Artane Rizvanolli had confirmed the decision at the time.
The “Facing the MCC deadlines, we have decided to move forward and use automatic investment for the computer programme, for lower risk investment, but to help Kosovo design the energy sector and create conditions for private sector economic development and development”, Rizvanol had declared in 2021.
