The project, which has been crippled for years by the high cost and low price of Russian supply, will require the construction of 226 kilometers of pipeline from the Catalan city of Hostalric to the French city of Barbaira.
In the midst of the energy crisis, European Union leaders are looking for a solution to curb dependence on Russian supplies. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Thursday that he will promote the construction of a gas pipeline that will increase gas imports from Portugal to Spain to the central zone of the continent. An infrastructure with these characteristics “would massively solve current problems,” he said.
The German leader has defended himself “strongly” in tackling a project called MidCat which will engage other leaders from Spain, Portugal and France and which he also plans to expose before European Commission President Ursula. von der Leyen. MidCat has been crippled by the high cost and low price of Russian supplies for years. In fact, there are still 226 kilometers of pipelines to be built from the Catalan town of Hostalric to Barbaira in France. Madrid, for its part, asks the EU to bear the costs.
Scholz has pointed out that if connections to the Iberian Peninsula had been strengthened sooner, it would have been “an enormous contribution to alleviate and alleviate the situation” of the gas supply, which Berlin has essentially received from Moscow in recent years. Today only two gas pipelines run from Spanish soil to the other side of the Pyrenees. In total, they have a capacity of barely 8,000 million cubic meters per year; Nord Stream 2 – the failed project proposed to export gas from Russia to Germany – can carry up to 55,000 million euros.
Source: La Verdad
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