PSD against Iberian interconnections agreement that ″harms″ Portugal
The PSD Rangel vice-president decided this Saturday that the president announced Spain to speed up how bad interconnections in the Iberian Peninsula are, electricity in gas was agreed against Spain and France.
“When explaining the new agreement, which minister first tried the agreement announced between the French president and the Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers harms the national interest, it is a bad agreement, and António Costa should never have accepted it“, said the also MEP, in a statement at the PSD’s national headquarters, in Lisbon.
In question is agreed by António António Costa, Spain and three countries, during a Thursday, in Brussels, during a meeting of the leaders of the two countries that foresee with a “Green Energy corridor”, by sea, between Barcelona and Marseille. (BarMar) in a famous crossing through the Pyrenees (MidCat).
The PSD still requires a detailed disclosure of the terms of the agreement and an independent assessment of the technical institutions of its consequences, so it will promote “all as a diligence within its reach in the Assembly of the Republic and with the institutions”.
For the vice-financing of the Social Democrats, it is essential to know how much the project will go to Portugal and how it will be president, as well as the deadline for execution. “The agreement, without a deadline and without a price, does not serve the European interest and does not serve the national interest”defended Rangel, defending that with this agreement “we exchange our renewables and the potential of the port of Sines for a plate of lentils.
Paulo Rangel argued that there is a strategic assessment of assets. “Nuclear and France won in electricity, and Spain and the port of Barcelona won in gas”, while “Portugal was left behind”, because “it lost in both dimensions”.
For Paulo Rangel, Portugal was “worse”, because “the international commitments, which had been signed and scheduled since 2014, for the construction of electrical interconnections in the Pyrenees fell and only the Bay of Biscay remained”. “For Portugal those two electrical interconnections were much more important than any gas connection, and even more than an exchange of gas pipelines that secondary to the Sines terminal. to Spain”, he pointed out.
vice-president of the PSD also added What the “agreement is also bad for Portugal in terms of gas interconnections because it exchanges gas pipelines that makes the Sines terminal secondary and smaller”. “The abandonment of the interconnection of the Pyrenees, the Midcat, for the novation between Barcelona and Marseille, the BarMar, value the Spanish gas terminals of Barcelona and Valencia, and makes the port of Sines lose strategic”, he justified.
Paulo Rangel “even the dubious question of what was once green required the greatest doubts” and “it is necessary to adapt to a network” and “this is known”.
For MEP António Costa, he was “in a dead end”. Paulo Range also questioned whether the signing of the agreement is also possible with possible “European ambitions” Prime Minister.
António Costa, Pedro Sánch and Emmanuel Verde, between this Thursday – Macro, between Barcelona and Marseille (Barcelona from a crossing through the Pines).
The timetable, sources of funding and costs related to the execution of the green Bar corridor will be discussed in a new three-way meeting in Decemberin Alicante, Spain.
According to the agreed text, the energy ministers between the two countries had access, the energy ministers who also work at the meeting – will immediately begin the preparatory work to proceed with BarMar and also on the reinforcement of electrical installations Spain and France, “in close liaison with the European Commission”.
The two Iberian prime ministers and the French president also agreed on the need to “complete future renewable gas interconnections between Portugal and Spain, namely the connection between Celorico da Beira and Zamora (CelZa)”.
Infrastructures can be created for a distribution of transport that must be technically designed, as well as a proportion of energy and transient of other renewable gases. António Costa that the agreement allows “overcoming a historic blockade” regarding the Iberian interconnections for gas and electricity.
IL with technical and financing doubts about the agreement
The president of the Liberal Initiative (IL), João Cotrim Figueiredo, this Saturday expressed doubts about the agreement between Portugal, Spain and France to speed up Iberian interconnections, from the outset regarding funding and technical issues.
“We still have doubts for now. On the one hand, what is the financing base that will be used. It’s not just about the gas pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille by sea, it’s also about connecting Portugal to the border, Zamora. It is not planned. How will the funding be done?”, said, in statements to Lusa, the leader of IL, on the sidelines of the “Liberal Routes” initiative, in Cascais, Lisbon district.
The governments of Portugal, France and Spain also reached an agreement to speed up Iberian interconnections, abandoning the existing project, intended only for gas, for another that also provides for a maritime gas pipeline for ‘green’ transport.
According to João Cotri, “what is conveyed by the French side, whether to accept the greater openness of the French side to accept this opening, had an agreement with the future of an amount”, that is, it wants to remain “that to see the amount of that amount”, the production of hydrogen, and the way this is also projected beyond the type of energy used to make the ‘green’ production.
“These doubts still do not allow us to answer whether it is a good idea or a better idea. Now, from a general point of view, we always support everything that is opening up markets”, he said.