3Power Energy Group Inc (PSPW)

[davied25]

Balluku is really showing she’s on the public opinion side...glad our concession is clean.

https://www.infrastruktura.gov.al/balluku-dhe-klosi-bashkebisedim-me-banoret-anulohet-ndertimi-i-hec-it-ne-kolonje-te-gjirokastres/

“The planned HPP to be built in the Rehovo stream, the Kardhiq River branch in the village of Kolonjë of the Picar administrative unit in Gjirokastra, will not be built. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy has decided to suspend the process after the concerns raised by residents about the impact that caused the construction of this work in the area concerned.

Minister Belinda Balluku, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Blendi Klosi, together with MP Flamur Golemi, held a conversation with the inhabitants of Kolonja, following the complaint of the latter in the platform of albania albaniaqëduam.al.

"If you are judged by the way the HPP has been proposed, based on the letters, there are village people who have signed, who have been in the meeting, so 20 have been together and have agreed to do so It becomes. So I'm telling you that this conversation has been done with the people, people have signed, perhaps without knowing what to discuss, perhaps not properly dictated, but I am telling you that this is the case today, and so we are the two ministers here, and MP to do this not only for you here. That this decision is now taken by the Ministry of Energy, but to do it for all of Albania. And people do not have to sign unconsciously, and they have to understand that nowadays are very important things, they are about the life of the village, with the life of the province, "said Minister Klosi.

Minister Balluku on her part assured the residents that the HPP in the Kolonja area will not be built because it conflicts with the requirements of the community, bringing to the attention also the fact that the area in question is an area with great tourist potential.

"This HEC will not be built. The procedure has been suspended so it will not open again. It's canceled. This procedure does not stand anymore because it has been in conflict with community requirements. Of course, water is very important for your village and your village is part of an area that, apart from some of the protected area elements, is part of 100 villages, "Balluku said.

The Minister briefed the residents on the initiative taken by the ministry she leads in terms of the scanning of contracts for all HPPs in the country and where some of them have been canceled. "All HPPs wherever they are, due to multiple complaints and because of the issues I had encountered from the first day on that task, have gone through a full scan. Some of them have been canceled and the HEC we are talking about has passed the scanning and meets the conditions to be canceled, "Balluku said.

Referring to the fact that residents of this area addressed their concerns about the construction of the HPP in the platform of co-governance, the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy said that "it is important that the voice of citizens in this mandate is much stronger and the word Co-governance is not a political propaganda, but it is true. We govern with you. "

The same attitude was also held by Minister Klosi, who promised that along with the Minister of Infrastructure, public hearings with citizens and citizens will continue throughout Albania to punish any environmental crime, which consequently endangers the lives of citizens.”