The chairman of the EBB of the PNV is in favor of the energy transition, but calls for ‘realism’ and taking into account the use of gas in industry and homes. He appreciates the measures announced by Sánchez, but believes it has taken months to take them.
Euskaraz irakurri: Ortuzar, energy itunari buruz: “Gaur egun ezin dugu gasa Euskadiko pool energetikotik kendu”
Andoni Ortuzar, chairman of the EBB of the PNV, has opted for an energy pact in Euskadi, but has asked EH Bildu for “realism” in the analysis. “Today we cannot extract gas from the Euskadi energy pool, not even in ten years. We want to talk to EH Bildu about that,” he said in an interview on Radio Euskadi’s Boulevard.
The leader of Jeltzale wants to “sit down as soon as possible” to get a energy pact, but “accept” that most houses use gas for heating and that a large part of the Basque electro-intensive industry works with gas, “because 30 years ago we told that it was more ecological than oil”. “We are in favor of all energy transitions and reaching 2050 with homework, but based on realismbecause we have the situation we have,” he added.
In the same sense, it has celebrated that Pedro Sanchez, President of the Government of Spain, took into account the cogeneration industry, although he regretted that the measures came too late. “It took us a few months,” said Ortuzar, who believes the executive has “made a big mistake on the gas issue” and has been very maximalist.
“When a country like ours has made a gas commitment,” referring to cogeneration in the CAV industry, “you have to give it an outlet so that the transition is reasonable,” because “the gas is needed for the transition“.
Without the inclusion of cogeneration in the support, “it would be the end for many of our industries,” said Ortuzar, who emphasizes that the port of Bilbao is the largest liquid gas entrance to Spain, only behind the gas pipeline from Algeria. “Now it would be a damn good thing to have a second gas loading dock in the Port of Bilbao,” which would make it possible to “supply all of Europe,” he added.
Ortuzar has criticized the Spanish government for failing to deliver on its own transfer schedule of powers to the CAV, and has warned that the PNV will feel “free” if Sánchez does not honor his agreement with the jeltzales. “We want this government to survive so that no one doubts”, but “we cannot have the responsibility, a cool head and two fingers that others do not have”. “If everyone goes to a festival, so does the PNV,” he said.
The Jeltzale leader has criticized Denis Itxaso, deputy of the government of Spain in the CAV, for pointing out the legal difficulty of some transfers. “I didn’t know he was a professor of state science,” he said. Ortuzar believes that if the executive itself were to approve the transfer schedule in the council of ministers, “they would have probably already seen that there were no technical problems.”
on reform of the statuteOrtuzar hopes that there is “an opportunity to be seized” between the legislative changes both in the CAV and in the Spanish state, but at the moment “the conditions for a broader agreement than Gernika’s do not exist”.
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