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Simon: Nobody Wants to Advise EnvMin on Sale of Emission Quotas
Sunday 25 July 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, July 25 (TASR) - The tender for consulting services for the sale of Slovakia's remaining CO2 emission quotas, which was announced by former Environment Minister Jozef Medved (Smer-SD nominee) five days after the recent general election, was wound up without finding a winner, Agriculture, Environment and Regional Development Minister Zsolt Simon has told TASR.
"It has been closed without choosing any bidder, as nobody bid following the media pressure," said Simon, who had criticised the tender and ordered an inspection into it. The consultant was supposed to decide who and under which conditions the remaining emission quotas should be dealt with in the next few years.
In 2008, Slovakia sold 15 million tonnes of emission quotas to the shady Interblue Group for €75 million, at a rate of €5.05 per tonne. According to the then opposition, the media and the current ministry management, this sum was around half of what it should have been. In addition, an extra euro per tonne should have been paid by the company for green projects, but this money wasn't forthcoming.
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