The Mayor of Pljevlja, Dario Vraneš, has asked those responsible at the Ministry of Energy and Mining and the Electric Power Company of Montenegro to approve electricity subsidies for the citizens of Pljevlja during the winter in the amount of at least 50 percent, given that the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant significantly affects air pollution in Pljevlja.
In the request he sent to the Minister of Energy and Mining, Admir Šahmanović, the President of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of the Electric Power Company of Montenegro, Milutin Đukanović, and Zdravko Dragaš, Vraneš also invited them to visit Pljevlja and "see for themselves the alarming situation, where the biological survival of citizens is in question due to air pollution."
"Given the enormous air pollution in Pljevlja during last night's and overnight hours, where sulfur dioxide concentrations have increased many times over the permitted values (the measured values are the highest since measurements were taken), and especially taking into account the fact that the Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant began operating without the desulfurization process envisaged by the ecological reconstruction project, we demand that you grant all citizens of the Pljevlja municipality a subsidy on their electricity bills during the winter months, in the amount of at least 50 percent," Vraneš stated in the request.
This morning at 9 am, the concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) was measured at 595 micrograms per cubic meter of air. At 10 am, the concentration was 533,9 micrograms per cubic meter. At 15 pm, the measured sulfur dioxide values were 560,7 micrograms per cubic meter.
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This value many times exceeds the legally permitted hourly limit of 350 micrograms, but also the warning threshold of 500 micrograms per cubic meter, which, according to current regulations, requires urgent state response and immediate notification to the public.
High concentrations of sulfur dioxide were not recorded only this morning. Even higher hourly concentrations of this dangerous pollutant were measured last night and during the previous night in Pljevlja. Thus, last night at 19 pm, a concentration of 373,8 micrograms per cubic meter was measured, at 20 pm 490,2 micrograms, and only an hour later the concentration suddenly jumped to 760 micrograms per cubic meter. At 22 pm, the sulfur dioxide concentration was 493,7 micrograms, at 23 pm 556,9, while at midnight a record value of as much as 805 micrograms per cubic meter of air was recorded.
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