PNL deputy Sebastian Burduja announced that he has initiated and will submit to Parliament several bills in the field of energy, one of which provides for the declaration of hydroelectric power plants as national security objectives.
"In the immediate future, I have at least four legislative projects that I will submit. I will start with the subject of hydropower. The hydropower plants under construction that I fought for as Minister of Energy deserve to be completed and my point of view is that the only way we can do this, beyond pompous declarations from the Parliament podium or in front of the cameras, is to declare them national security objectives. It is the only loophole allowed by the Treaty of the European Union, which allows for exemptions from environmental procedures, expropriation procedures, and procurement procedures. In this regard, today, tomorrow at the latest, I will launch a public petition and call on all Romanians to support the completion of these projects," Burduja said in Parliament.
Another legislative initiative developed by the PNL deputy is related to the coal sector.
"Romania has embarked on a decarbonization trajectory through which all coal mines and exploitations should be put into conservation in a few years. I believe that we need coal for the country's energy security and my legislative project aims at two reserve scenarios. To the extent that after these years we will no longer be able to exploit coal under normal conditions to produce electricity, we can exploit it for non-energy purposes, as other states do, in the pharmaceutical industry, in the textile industry, in other industries and also, in case of exceptional situations, security crisis, for Romania's strategic reserves, when we may need additional energy groups and be able to operate these groups with coal," said Burduja.
Burduja added that another bill refers to the creation of a cyber shield for the energy sector, more precisely a cyber center within the Ministry of Energy, financed from European funds, where a team of cybersecurity specialists will protect the country's critical energy infrastructure 24 hours a day.
"We also have an important initiative that refers to agricultural lands over which overhead power lines now cross. Several farmers have notified us that these existing networks are hindering certain irrigation systems and are demanding that, at their expense, they be able to switch these networks from overhead lines to underground lines. (...) And last but not least, a fulfilled promise is the establishment of a new merit, the energy merit, a decoration that the President of Romania will be able to grant to deserving people in the energy sector. At the moment, there is only the industrial merit, I think it is called, it is not sufficiently individualized for a sector critical for the future of Romania," concluded the liberal deputy.
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