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LNG TERMINAL IN THE PORT OF TRIESTE: SLOVENIA’S OPINION IS BINDING

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March 13th, 2015. – TheItalian Minister of the Environment’s new favorable opinion about Gas Natural’s proposed LNG terminal in the port of Trieste is only one of the opinions released as part of the E.I.A. – Environmental Impact Assessment. This means, it is not binding.

Many other authorities need to evaluate the project, including the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and Region Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Even so, their (eventual) approval alone would not constitute a final authorization.

Indeed, the decisive opinion about Gas Natural’s LNG terminal is Slovenia’s, as part of the cross border E.I.A. procedure. The European Commission has confirmed this, recalling E.U. regulation No. 1391/2013.

Indeed, the EC declared that:

The Commission Delegated Regulation adopted 14.10.131 as regards the Union list of projects of common interest (PCI) for trans-European energy infrastructure has indicated with regard to project number 6.19 ‘PCI Onshore LNG terminal in the Northern Adriatic (IT)’ that ‘The exact location of the LNG terminal in the Northern Adriatic will be decided by Italy in agreement with Slovenia’.

This means, as part of the E.I.A. Slovenia’s opinion is binding.

Source: environmentalist organization Greenaction Transnational