On May 17, Polish state-owned natural gas pipeline network operator Gaz-System S.A. published its updated strategy for 2016–2025. A noteworthy new element in the document is the plan to create a natural gas hub in Poland, aimed at establishing a regional gas market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). […]
Members of the European Parliament say the European Commission lacks resolve in dealing with Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, a facility being built by Belarus close to the Lithuanian border, LRT reports. […]
Lithuanian and Polish energy market regulators have begun to investigate whether the Polish electricity grid operator PSE is violating European Union rules through its limit on Lithuanian energy imports. […]
The European Union has to speak with once voice about the safety of a new nuclear power plant that Belarus is building in Astravyets, close to its border with Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said during a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday. […]
Belarusian Minister for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei has claimed that Lithuania’s complaints about the safety of the new nuclear power plant being built in Belarus, just 50km from Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, are inexplicable. […]
Double standards must not apply to a new nuclear power plant that Belarus is building in Astravyets, close to its border with Lithuania, EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said on Friday. […]
The Baltic States are considering creating a single gas market that would facilitate gas trading among the three countries and may include Finland. […]
Lithuania has called on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to be particularly rigorous in examining projects linked, even indirectly, to the Astravyets nuclear power plant when considering investments in Belarus‘ economy or infrastructure. […]
Open consultations on the National Energy Strategy have begun with for the first time, the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy is organising consultations with interest groups whose comments will be considered when drafting the final strategy. […]
About 100 protesters showed up in front of the Belarusian Embassy Monday at noon to protest against the nuclear power plant being build right at Vilnius’ doorstep. […]
An environmental impact assessment report that Belarus has presented to Lithuania regarding its Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant reads like it was written with an automated translation engine and raises concerns that nuclear safety is not taken seriously, Lithuanian experts say. […]
Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety inspectors say that there is no information suggesting that a possible incident at the Astravyets nuclear plant, 50km from Lithuania’s capital, could cause a risk of radiation exposure but Belarusian authorities deny the incident even took place. […]
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, said during a visit in Lithuania that the Belarusian government’s decision to build Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant was a crime. […]
Energy expert Saulius Kutas believes that Lithuania doesn’t pay enough attention to its energy security. […]
Nord Stream 2, the controversial Russian-German pipeline project, is generating fierce opposition in Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the European Parliament and the European Commission. But could the opponents of the pipeline, owned 50% by Gazprom and 50% by some of the largest Western European companies, stop the project? […]
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