Russian investors are ready to take part in Bulgaria's nuclear plant project in Belene following the withdrawal of German utility RWE, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said Friday. "Russia wants to see the project continue and we are currently holding constructive dialogue with the Bulgarian government to find a fair corporate solution allowing us to secure the further development of Belene," Shmatko said after intergovernmental energy talks in Sofia. He said he had spoken to the Bulgarian government of "the interest of Russian companies to become shareholders in Belene." RWE's withdrawal from the 10-billion-euro (14.6-billion-dollar) project for a new nuclear power plant on the Danube prompted Bulgaria to seek new investors to take up the German utility's 49-percent stake in the project. Severe shortage of funding for the 2,000-megawatt plant also made Bulgaria's government consider selling part of its own 51-percent share in Belene, according to Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov.
"Russia wants to see the project continue and we are currently holding constructive dialogue with the Bulgarian government to find a fair corporate solution allowing us to secure the further development of Belene," Shmatko said after intergovernmental energy talks in Sofia.
He said he had spoken to the Bulgarian government of "the interest of Russian companies to become shareholders in Belene."
RWE's withdrawal from the 10-billion-euro (14.6-billion-dollar) project for a new nuclear power plant on the Danube prompted Bulgaria to seek new investors to take up the German utility's 49-percent stake in the project.
Severe shortage of funding for the 2,000-megawatt plant also made Bulgaria's government consider selling part of its own 51-percent share in Belene, according to Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov.
I've said it before, there is a saying in bulgaria that goes; "Italy has the mafia, but the mafia has Bulgaria".
Everything is available for theft. money has been allocated to the building of a metro system in sofia on two occasions. Each time the money is allocated in the budget, but then erodes during the contract awarding process.
The EU allocated a large amount of money to build a 150 km dual carriageway from Sofia to Kulata for the main road from Greece into europe while the Serbian road is "difficult". This road is now dual carraigeway for perhaps 30 km. The rest is upgraded single carriageway. The money that should have been spent ? who knows ?
A dam was built to provide drinking water for Sandanski. But when they started filling it, it began to leak because the concrete was sub-standard. Somebody charged for the good stuff tho' and made off with a large amount of money.
bulgaria is a country that has a shortage of electricity, but a huge potential hydro-electric potential. However I am told that nobody trusts the government or the contractors not to pull a trick and build the dam cheaply. Who wants to live downstream of a criminally weakened dam ?
I could go on .. and on keep to the Fen Causeway
Amazing! In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Problem being that any journalist hwo tries to say this or, worse still, investigate and find proof, has a nasty habit of winding up dead. I think 6 died in suspicious circumstances during 2008. keep to the Fen Causeway
My body is "successful" but definitely NOT a democracy. My brain, i.e. the "government", runs the show absolutely, gets the best (glucose) of everything, is protected absolutely (blood/brain barrier, immune system tracking down foreign invaders or those pesky freedom fighters (cancers)), and frequently screws up under the influence of alcohol (self-induced) but gets away with it. Again, a biologically successful system. Like it or not our world society might be heading in that direction, and the only thing in its way may be extinction. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Like the President of Your United States, consciousness knows only a very small amount of what is going on in 'government' because at each stage up the chain from field to White House, people are collecting, collating, analyzing, filtering, discarding and passing up data in the form of recommendations for action. The President may get two recommendations: it's not hard to be 50% right. That's why clowns can be Presidents. They are not really needed - except to accept and convey the decision to 'non-government'.
President of the State of Mind: "I've decided to have a cup of tea."
<mumbling in the audience> Well of course you have you prannie, we've been telling you that for 10 minutes. You can't be me, I'm taken
