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Up to three times the minister repeated that the Tarragona chemical cluster, and its degree of compatibility with the tourism sector, should be an example for "other areas" of the State. Soria, who has arrived at the Repsol refinery in Tarragona by helicopter, praised the excellence of the Tarragona chemical industry in the presence of mayors and businessmen from the territory, promising that the State understands its complaints and concerns before the powers of the North -America and China, the two main competitors, and a price of energy with a cumulative growth of 70% in ten years.
"Given the high energy costs, European plants will have serious difficulties to continue operating, and we do not want them to close those of Tarragona, so they are asking for their support," asked the chairman of the chemical cluster, ChemMed Tarragona, Jesús Loma-Ossorio. "We want to have the same advantages as other clusters in Europe, and that we are an attractive territory both in terms of energy and infrastructure, with the European-wide rail connection or the A-27 railcar," added the president of the cluster
Soria has responded that electricity prices dropped by 3.7% in 2013 and is expected to be higher in 2014, but warned that the State depends in excess of oil and gas imports - one cost of 100 million euros per day. According to Soria, this justifies the current oil prospecting projects that are on the coast of the Delta and also in the Canaries. "The most important thing is that Spain, within its territorial waters, finds oil," he said. Soria recalled that the Casablanca platform is at the final stage of production.
"If the survey request meets all the environmental requirements, go ahead, on the other hand, it depends on the operator to assess whether it is profitable or not," he added, in relation to the possibility that the project could end up in the hands from Morocco. The minister added that the Spanish government encourages the extension of nuclear reactors and also of hydraulic fracturing, called 'fracking', as a prospection of unconventional resources - a system widely used in the United States - although it has wanted to differentiate it completely from the controversial Castor project.
The incognito of the cost of the Beaver
On the other hand, the Minister again reiterated that the Spanish government has decided to indemnify the company that promoted the Castor project with 1,350 million euros in compliance with the concession clause that guaranteed the return of the residual value of the Investment at the time of renouncing it, regardless of whether it had acted negligently or fraudulently. A clause, he recalled, that the council of ministers, in 2012, declared injuries and appealed to the Supreme Court, who despite recognizing their validity, also left the door open to the Spanish government to demand responsibilities to Escal UGS - in hands of the ACS group of Florentino Pérez-.
In spite of everything, Soria has given this exit satisfactory because, as has been repeated, it will mean a "52% less payment" for the gas system with respect to the cost that the Castor project would have been in operation: from 210 to 100 million euros annually . "For the gas and consumer sector it has a clear favorable effect," he insisted. The ministerial figures, which would represent more than 3,000 million euros over 30 years in charge of the gas bill - in an operation by which Enagás has sold the collection rights to Caixabank, Banco Santander and Bankia - do not agree with those calculated by the Citizen Platform in Defense of the Land of the Sénia or the OCU, that places the total cost of the project in 4.731 million euros, very close to the 4.880 million euros that the company of Florentino Perez tried To obtain in 25 years of operation for the amortization of the facilities and its operation. SOURCE: Notify published on reusdigital.cat
"Given the high energy costs, European plants will have serious difficulties to continue operating, and we do not want them to close those of Tarragona, so they are asking for their support," asked the chairman of the chemical cluster, ChemMed Tarragona, Jesús Loma-Ossorio. "We want to have the same advantages as other clusters in Europe, and that we are an attractive territory both in terms of energy and infrastructure, with the European-wide rail connection or the A-27 railcar," added the president of the cluster
Soria has responded that electricity prices dropped by 3.7% in 2013 and is expected to be higher in 2014, but warned that the State depends in excess of oil and gas imports - one cost of 100 million euros per day. According to Soria, this justifies the current oil prospecting projects that are on the coast of the Delta and also in the Canaries. "The most important thing is that Spain, within its territorial waters, finds oil," he said. Soria recalled that the Casablanca platform is at the final stage of production.
"If the survey request meets all the environmental requirements, go ahead, on the other hand, it depends on the operator to assess whether it is profitable or not," he added, in relation to the possibility that the project could end up in the hands from Morocco. The minister added that the Spanish government encourages the extension of nuclear reactors and also of hydraulic fracturing, called 'fracking', as a prospection of unconventional resources - a system widely used in the United States - although it has wanted to differentiate it completely from the controversial Castor project.
The incognito of the cost of the Beaver
On the other hand, the Minister again reiterated that the Spanish government has decided to indemnify the company that promoted the Castor project with 1,350 million euros in compliance with the concession clause that guaranteed the return of the residual value of the Investment at the time of renouncing it, regardless of whether it had acted negligently or fraudulently. A clause, he recalled, that the council of ministers, in 2012, declared injuries and appealed to the Supreme Court, who despite recognizing their validity, also left the door open to the Spanish government to demand responsibilities to Escal UGS - in hands of the ACS group of Florentino Pérez-.
In spite of everything, Soria has given this exit satisfactory because, as has been repeated, it will mean a "52% less payment" for the gas system with respect to the cost that the Castor project would have been in operation: from 210 to 100 million euros annually . "For the gas and consumer sector it has a clear favorable effect," he insisted. The ministerial figures, which would represent more than 3,000 million euros over 30 years in charge of the gas bill - in an operation by which Enagás has sold the collection rights to Caixabank, Banco Santander and Bankia - do not agree with those calculated by the Citizen Platform in Defense of the Land of the Sénia or the OCU, that places the total cost of the project in 4.731 million euros, very close to the 4.880 million euros that the company of Florentino Perez tried To obtain in 25 years of operation for the amortization of the facilities and its operation. SOURCE: Notify published on reusdigital.cat