Hungary will become a battery colony?
The green party LMP has vowed to do everything legally possible to “prevent Hungary from becoming a battery-plant colony”.
Máté Kanász-Nagy, the party’s deputy parliamentary group leader, told a press conference on Tuesday that the government had been “unwilling” to publicly reveal plans to build a battery plant in Nyiregyhaza, in north-eastern Hungary.
LMP has written to the minister of foreign affairs and trade with a request for details of the investment such as the plant’s water and energy needs, whether the plant would have an impact on farmland, and how much direct state support the investor would receive.
Further, the party wanted to know whether any preliminary environmental impact assessments had been carried out and whether the city’s administration had been involved in the planning, he said. LMP received a three-paragraph reply to the dozens of questions contained in the letter which amounted to a “cynical confession”, he added.
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These people oppose everything… – except taxing people more and taking away our freedoms. What’s their use and purpose?
Fidesz has never properly spelled out any of the details of the costs and benefits of the battery plant in Debrecen and the local community is vehemently opposed to it. Everything this government does is with secret agreements the details of which can’t be released to the public for 30 years so that the public can never hold these corrupt politicians accountable. Whenever government hides information about what they are doing from the public you know it’s going to be bad.