The thermal power plant Pljevlja has been "working illegally" since the end of last year because it has used up all 20.000 hours that the International Council of the Energy Community approved for it to operate in the period from 2018 to 2023.
This is what Diana Milev Čavor from the NGO EKO-team claims.
Milev Čavor clarified that under the Integrated Permit, the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant can operate for 20.000 hours in the period from 2018 to 2023, and that in the meantime, environmental reconstruction should have been carried out and the work harmonized with the necessary environmental standards.
"The thermal power plant is now working illegally because it violates the integrated permit," said Milev Čavor.
Note that the integrated permit was granted temporarily, for a period of five years, precisely because it was expected that the ecological reconstruction project would be completed by 2023.
"Even now, the Agency for Nature and Environmental Protection should have issued a new permit," said Milev Čavor.
He claims that on Friday, Montenegro submitted to the European Environment Agency the information that the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant worked for a total of 7194 hours last year.
"With 7.081 registered hours in 2018 and 6.728 in 2019, it means that the thermal power plant Pljevlja used up the number of working hours before the end of 2020 and that it has been working illegally for more than three months," said Milev Čavor.
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