Hungarian green parties opposing Samsung investment, Azerbaijani electricity contract
The opposition LMP party has called on the government to cancel the multilateral agreement with Azerbaijan on electricity transmission. Meanwhile, the opposition Párbeszéd-Greens has called for the suspension of operations of the Samsung SDI battery plant in Göd, near Budapest, until the plant receives legal permits.
LMP calls on government to cancel Azerbaijan electricity transmission contract
In December 2022, Prime Minister Viktor Orbén signed the agreement regarding the undersea power line with his Georgian and Romanian counterparts and the Azeri president, LMP politician Örs Tetlák noted at a press conference on Friday.
He said it was baffling that the government was counting on Azeri wind energy while blocking wind farms in Hungary, noting that barely 5 percent of Azeri energy was from renewable sources, and there is no guarantee that green energy would be delivered by a country rich in natural gas.
The LMP politician noted that the project was in the planning stage, and based on the 2.3 billion euro EU subsidy for the project, Hungary would receive hundreds of billions of forints to pay for construction, when this money could be spent far more effectively.
Párbeszéd calls for suspension of Samsung battery plant operations
The opposition Párbeszéd-Greens has called for the suspension of operations of the Samsung SDI battery plant in Göd, near Budapest, until the plant receives legal permits. The plant has operated for five years without the proper legal permits, Benedek Jávor, a party adviser, told an online press briefing on Friday. The plant, he added, had been polluting the environment and exceeding harmful emission limits, and the authorities had fined the company. Also, he said Samsung SDI failed to operate a proper network of monitoring wells for the assessment of underground water pollution and noise levels produced by the factory exceeded acceptable limits.
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These green nincompoops would have us all living in trees like apes if it was up to them. They oppose absolutely everything that has a chance of improving, or even just preserving, our quality of life… – unless, of course, it’s super expensive and grossly inefficient plus based on total lies (such as E.V.s, solar “energy,” those damn electric scooters blighting our streets, veganism, etc.). No wonder only impressionable youth voters for them.