PM Ponta: Romania must also have thermal power production; EC Oltenia and Hunedoara can be salvaged

Prime Minister Victor Ponta in Craiova on Tuesday said that Romania must also have thermal power production, even if it is more expensive, because it is safer, and that the Oltenia and Hunedoara Energy Complexes can be salvaged on condition that "everyone thinks and understands that scandal doesn't help."

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The Prime Minister also said that the IMF and the European Commission asked the closing down of the two complexes, but the Government refused.

"We have taken all measures for what thermal power production means. I have said it before and I am saying it here now, for who has the wisdom and listens to me. Who wants scandal doesn't listen to me. The IMF and the European Commission clearly came and asked us to close down both Oltenia Energy Complex and Hunedoara Energy Complex. We said no and they went home and this is the main reason for which we still haven't a concluded letter. But this means both we and they can find solutions [the representatives of the energy complexes], because if we fight in the streets, the clearest solution is to close all of them down, which seems to me a great nonsense," Ponta said in Craiova, where he participated in the inauguration of the construction works on a housing quarter by a Chinese company, in reply to a question on the situation of Oltenia Energy Complex.

Victor Ponta pointed out that the Government will continue to take all EU allowed measures to salvage the production of thermal power. AGERPRES