Lebanon Environment Minister praises electricity leasing deal

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Environment Minister Nazem al-Khoury praised on Thursday the agreement to lease power-generating ships calling it the “best” deal .

“In my view, we reached the best deal… [if we take into consideration] the previous offers,” Khoury told MTV television.

He added that he had reservations concerning the environmental impact of the ships and that “environmental conditions should be imposed according to international norms.”

His comments come after Energy Minister Gebran Bassil confirmed on Thursday that the ministerial committee charged with studying the offers regarding the leasing of power-generating ships agreed to lease two power-generating ships.

The ministerial committee meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail, National News Agency reported on Thursday adding that committee members Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi, Bassil and Khoury were present at the meeting.

This development comes after the Cabinet agreed on Wednesday last week during a marathon session at the Baabda palace to lease for a maximum of three years power-generating ships to produce 270 megawatts and to the construction of 1,500-megawatt power plants.

Syria reneged on gas contract to supply Lebanon

Protest against power blackouts . The poster reads "Neither 8 nor 14 we want 24/24 electricity". 8 refers to March 8 alliance while 14 refers to the March 14 alliance

Lebanon has been suffering from power blackouts for several years. In December 2001, Syria and Lebanon concluded a sales contract for the supply by the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) of 1.5 million cubic meter a day (cbm/d) of natural gas to feed the northern Lebanese power station of Dayr Ammar-Beddawi.

The contract called for the building of a 45Km pipeline, 12Km in Syria, linking the main Homs-Banias gas pipeline to the Syrian-Lebanese border and 33Km from the Lebanese border to the power station.

The agreement also left the door open for an extension of the supply of Syrian gas to Lebanon to up to 6 million cbm/d, with the most likely following step being the extension of the gas pipeline to reach the southern power station of Zahrani and supply it with another 1.5 million cbm/d.

The power stations in Lebanon were converted to allow for the use of the Syrian natural gas. The pipeline was also built on both sides of the borders and was ready to be operational in March 2005.

But after the assassination of Lebanon’s prime minister Rafik Hariri which was blamed on Syria and forced Syria to leave Lebanon, Syria reneged on the contract .

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10 responses to “Lebanon Environment Minister praises electricity leasing deal”

  1. farida2012 Avatar
    farida2012

    Lebanon should now celebrate, it is great achievement! 
    Don”t grow food- import them
    Don’t raise animals – import them frozen or right t slaughter
    Don’t build infrastructure- country is only temporally- one may say war may break and be destroyed in a flash, have a point! 
    and  ….the list goes on and on..
    don’t produce electricity, rent ships for your temporary country called Lebanon! for temporary people that think have a  country- 
    Nothing futuristic and progressive; RETARDS! vive la France- la belle mère!   

    1. dabshaleem Avatar
      dabshaleem

      yu just lik all salafites mr

      1. yazidi Avatar

         shut up you faqihi irani shit go home to iran you mongol Basterd nasarshytan!!

  2. farida2012 Avatar
    farida2012

    Lebanon should now celebrate, it is great achievement! 
    Don”t grow food- import them
    Don’t raise animals – import them frozen or right t slaughter
    Don’t build infrastructure- country is only temporally- one may say war may break and be destroyed in a flash, have a point! 
    and  ….the list goes on and on..
    don’t produce electricity, rent ships for your temporary country called Lebanon! for temporary people that think have a  country- 
    Nothing futuristic and progressive; RETARDS! vive la France- la belle mère!   

    1. dabshaleem Avatar
      dabshaleem

      yu just lik all salafites mr

      1. yazidi Avatar

         shut up you faqihi irani shit go home to iran you mongol Basterd nasarshytan!!

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Well, they got more people out than the women’s movement did. 😉
    Lebanon wil get nothing from Syria or Iran but theft of taxes or death and destruction … so this is a good move … pay for the temporary ship-power while building a real power plant, make everyone pay their bills for usage, and bring the place into at least physical light for a change. Mental ‘light’ seems to escape many … but maybe this move will finally begin a process of improvement, and allow the people who now sit in the dark (or are afraid of walking a street at night because of it) to feel there could be some improvement in their lives if the cabinet could succeed in making decisions sooner than 10 years apart – without killing each other over an attempt to do so, or stealing the money for useless projects that never work.
    Well … for now … keep buying the candles.

  4. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Well, they got more people out than the women’s movement did. 😉

  5. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    i cannot believe that this deal has passed through after all……leasing them costs more then buying them. simple logic that my two yr old son can deduct and chooses buying them….

    it would be interesting to know how much money Bassil and his family own after this whole mess is cleared and a new govt is formed [hopefully in the near future]. 

  6. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    i cannot believe that this deal has passed through after all……leasing them costs more then buying them. simple logic that my two yr old son can deduct and chooses buying them….

    it would be interesting to know how much money Bassil and his family own after this whole mess is cleared and a new govt is formed [hopefully in the near future]. 

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