What goes on in Poland on the 4th of May.
Novatek wants to fight for Polish assets
Novatek will protect its interests in Poland in accordance with applicable law, said an anonymous representative of the company in an interview with Interfax.
The company is to analyze potential legal steps. However, he does not want to comment on his actions: – It is impossible to comment on the current situation. Our branch in Poland is ready to provide its services, we can resume deliveries at any time – said Interfax, who preferred to remain anonymous.
Novatek Green Energy based in Krakow has been entered on the Polish sanctions list. The Polish subsidiary of the Russian giant supplied gas in the form of LNG to several municipalities in Poland. As a result of the restrictions, the inhabitants of several Polish municipalities were left without gas supplies. The government obliged PGNiG and PSG to manage Novatek Green Energy installations. Currently, the process of restoring gas supplies to residents is underway.
Poland wants a specific date to abandon Russian oil
Before the departure of the Council of EU Energy Ministers to Brussels, the Minister of Climate and Environment, Anna Moskwa, spoke about Poland’s expectations regarding Europe’s departure from Russian fossil fuels. – We are able to agree to a transitional package, both in terms of gas and oil. We do not agree to a situation where countries would continue to import and pay for oil, she said.
Anna Moskwa recalled Brussels’ declarations that May is the moment when individual states, but also the community as a whole, will announce a full program of energy derusification. – This is good news as an alternative to the lack of sanctions on gas. We will be calling for full sanctions and independence from oil. We are getting closer to it – in recent days, Germany has been talking more and more about the will and plan to support sanctions on oil. I will have another meeting with Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, we will deepen the talks we have started in Poland. We, as Poland, are ready to support, with the help of the refinery in Gdańsk, the ambitions of de-Russification of the German side. At the same time, I will provide information about our stable gas and energy market, that our warehouses are 79 percent full, I will convey with my Lithuanian colleague that we will pass a new gas pipeline to Poland from Lithuania, she said.
– On the initiative of Poland, we will talk about our proposal of a kind of „Russian ETS”. I will present the details of this proposal – a special tax, duty or charge, the amount of which would depend on the percentage of dependence on Russian resources – oil, gas, coal and others. There would be a similar mechanism as in the ECJ, it would mobilize countries to accelerate the pace of de-Russification, she said.