site.btaBlue Bulgaria's Top Candidate in Haskovo Kirilova: There Is Governance, Communication Chaos regarding Green Transition

Tsveta Kirilova, top-of-the-list candidate of the Blue Bulgaria Coalition in Haskovo, Saturday argued that there is governance and communication chaos regarding the green transition. "The employees affected by layoffs at Maritsa East Mines are wandering in a maze of half-hearted statements, lack of arguments, completely contradictory expert opinions and conclusions like, Europe is pushing us towards the abyss," she noted.  

"In 2021, I started to speak in the public space as a presidential candidate that our country can build an innovative model for energy independence and security for Bulgaria. Then I invited representatives of all possible institutions - the Presidency, the Council of Ministers, ministers, trade unions, representatives of civil society organizations, energy companies, environmental NGOs," Kirilova recalled. "I told the story how years ago, a Bulgarian company had created a prototype - a technology for extracting brown gas from seawater, the results of which, with a public-private partnership, could have been turned into a huge national-scale energy complex, employing many of the staff about to be laid off from he coal-fired power plants," she went on to say.

According to her, the question on the agenda is why the Maritsa East thermal power plant  is going away and why the workers there are protesting. "Because they are not being told the truth and in no way the workers in this strategic sector are being told the situation as it is, and no one has taken any action to find a solution," Kirilova added.