The construction of an energy cable from Montenegrin Jaz to the Italian coast, with a huge plant and substation in the town of Lastva grbaljska and a transmission line to Pljevlja, will cost the most of Montenegrin natural beauty through eight municipalities.
It is clear that Italy will benefit the most through the company Terna, which is implementing the project with Montenegrin Elektroprenos (CGES), in which it received an ownership stake without a tender.
Italian business knows that energy needs to "occupy" the Balkan countries in order for companies from that country to get the job of building hydro and thermal power plants, whose electricity they would export and resell to make "imperial" money. Millions of figures are certain from energy transit from Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania...
"The construction of the cable is connected with the creation of infrastructure conditions for a more reliable transfer of electricity from the future production facilities in Pljevlja - the Maoče thermal power plant and the second block of the Pljevlja TE. An encouraging signal for new, especially renewable energy sources. Preconditions are being created for the connection of planned new sources of electricity : power plant in Morača, Komarnica, thermal power plants in Berane, small HPPs and wind power plants," says the draft of the Detailed Spatial Plan for the cable construction project, which was prepared by the Republic Institute for Urban Planning and Design of Montenegrin businessman Aco Đukanović.
It was his brother, the leader of the ruling DPS and former Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, who agreed with his Italian colleague Silvio Berlusconi on cooperation between the two countries, which includes an undersea energy connection.
The drafts of the DPP and the report on the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment are up for public discussion until May 26, and the organizer is the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism.
The developer of the plan emphasizes that through the cable, Montenegro will become an important energy hub in the region, it will receive a fifth of the income from electricity transit, and the energy supply will also be improved.
The discussion on the location proposals will answer whether the professional public and citizens, whose properties will be affected by the project, support the huge converter plant and substation occupying 240.000 square meters of land in the town of Blato - Lastva grbaljska, along the highway from Tivat to Budva.
It was also proposed that the cable exit from the sea on the western side of Cape Jaz, which corresponds to the Italian Terna, which also wanted Trsteno beach, but the developer of the plan claims that it will not be affected. The route of the 400-kilovolt (kV) transmission line connects Lastva, that is, the coastal part via Čevo and Šavnik to Pljevlj.
Are the National Parks "Lovćen" and "Durmitor" endangered?
Although the builders would "drop a spoon in the honey" if the transmission line passed through the more accessible part to the north of Montenegro, the Government must not allow them to endanger the national parks "Lovćen" and "Durmitor", under a strict nature protection regime.
It is indicated that there is a disruptive factor of the transmission line's "travel" through the National Park, which causes clearing of the route, and a negative impact on birds is possible because it passes by Slani and Lake Krupac.
The transmission line passes through as many as eight municipalities - Budva, Kotor, Cetinje, Nikšić, Šavnik, Plužine, Žabljak and Pljevlja, with a total length of about 144 kilometers in the mainland part of the country. The kilometer-wide corridor runs through the forests from Jaz to Lovćen National Park and encompasses about five and a half kilometers of that national park, while Durmitoru National Park takes up about one and a half kilometers.
"The selected route passes through national parks, but avoids and, to the maximum extent possible, moves away from parts of the park that are marked as special protective and strictly prohibited zones," claims the developer of the plan.
NP Durmitor enjoys dual international protection (MAB and UNESCO) and the transmission line must be implemented with, as the draft warns, "maximum sensitivity and with the greatest protection measures known in theory and practice", respecting the main spatial plan of the state.
It is indicated that there is a disruptive factor of the transmission line's "travel" through the National Park, which causes clearing of the route, and a negative impact on birds is possible because it passes by Slani and Lake Krupac.
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