Translation12 Nov 2018 20:53
Ars Director resigned due to "fracking" in Petišovci www.dnevnik.si At the end of October, the Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning Jure Lebenje ordered internal control over the work of Ars. The Ministry decided to examine in detail the two procedures that the Agency conducted in connection with planned gas extraction in the area of Petišovci. Minister "wanted to make sure that both Petišovci cases proceed legally, professionally and impartially", the STA said today at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. The independent commission for internal control today presented Lebnu with conclusions. "Today's report tells us that the ministers' suspicions were justified," they explained. "Foreigners' pressures on Slovenian officials do not seem inadmissible" Thus, according to the findings of the commission, the principles of autonomy and independence of the body and the work of officials were violated in both procedures. The Commission has particularly highlighted the fact that "foreigners' pressures on Slovenian officials do not appear to be intolerable and undisputed and are ready to repeat them." The prince offered Lebnu the resignation that the minister accepted. The findings of the commission will be forwarded to the competent authorities. "All pressures that were committed during the course of internal control against the leadership of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning or employees, were also reported to the competent authorities," the ministry said. Leben ordered professional supervision of two procedures. The first is the procedure for the approval of an environmental permit for the operation of the plant - a refinery for the purification of natural gas, which may cause pollution of a larger scale. The aforementioned device would allow the British company Ascent Resources to refine gas refining, which could be sent to the Slovenian gas network. For the time being, the Britons are only getting smaller quantities of purified gas from Petišovci, which is supplied by Croatia's Ini via the existing gas pipeline to Croatia. Another procedure in which control was ordered is related to the requirement to carry out a preliminary procedure for examining the maintenance of productivity in the extraction of mineral resources. The application was made by Geoenergo, the project leader in Petišovci, owned by Petrol and Nafta Lendava. Initially, they applied for permission to "restimulate the two wells" and later renamed the name of the procedure into "maintenance of productivity in the extraction of mineral substances". This is a key permit that would allow the gas to be pumped in Petišovci with t. i. hydraulic stimulation of small scale. This would significantly increase the capacity of the existing two wells or prolong their lifetime. After the introduction of control, Ascent Resources has been threatened by the procedures before the EU Court due to delays in examining their role, and threats of alleged s
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