“In fact, Poland is waiting for Lithuania to award concession for this project and ... it would rejoin the negotiations. Poland suspended [its participation], ..., it is waiting for the decisions that will be adopted by Lithuania’s Seimas [parliament], and Poland is ready, it is interested, since the environmental protection standards will be much more stringent in 2016, perhaps Poland hopes, and we support it, that those standards will not be that stringent, so that it will be possible to stop burning coal gradually, but North-East Poland still has a shortage of electricity, and Poland is looking to Lithuania to supply electricity,” he said in an interview to Znad Willi radio station on Tuesday.
Poland’s participation in the project of constructing a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas was important for Lithuania, he said.
Sekmokas earlier said that the decision to suspend participation in the nuclear facility project was taken by Poland’s energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) at the end of 2011.
2012-05-29 15:19
Lithuanian Energy Minister: Poland is eager to rejoin nuclear power plant project
Poland is waiting for Lithuania to adopt certain political decisions before it rejoins the new nuclear power plant projec, Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas has said. Poland pulled out in 2011.
Arvydas Sekmokas / BFL/Tomo Lukšio nuotr.
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