Río Negro, Neuquén and Chubut reached an agreement with the government of Javier Milei through the mountain gas pipeline, a work that has not yet been completed and that will guarantee supply to thousands of families. There will be a distribution of the financing and different deadlines to be met by the parties. The signing took place this afternoon, in Buenos Aires.
There is a twenty mountain towns awaiting resolution of this problem to be able to connect to the network. It is estimated that some 15,000 users are waiting for this possibility.
The signing took place this afternoon at the National Energy Secretariat, in Buenos Aires, with the signature of the governors Rolando Figueroa for Neuquén, Ignacio Torres for Chubut and the Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Chirillo. The Rio Negro president, Alberto Weretilneck, He could not attend because he was in Bariloche, on the occasion of that city’s anniversary.
In his networks, Figueroa highlighted the firm to advance with the works and considered that it will provide “a new horizon of growth for the entire Southern region.”
Regarding the financing of the Cordilleran gas pipeline, it was reported that Río Negro would put 50%, Neuquén 25% and Chubut the other 25%.
The Neuquén and Chubut are going to provide the first funds, that is, 50% of the work, and then Río Negro completes the remaining half.
The objective of this agreement is that The gas pipeline work will be completed by June 2025.
A gas pipeline that stopped gas connections in the mountain area
In mid-April, the amparistas who brought the claim for the completion of complementary works on the mountain gas pipeline to allow Bariloche and users throughout the region to once again have feasibility for gas connections, announced that they received confirmation that Civil works were resumed in the province of Chubut.
A few days later, almost a year and a half after the collective judicial action began, the acting federal judge of Bariloche, Gustavo Villanueva, decided to summon the parties to the amparo for the reactivation of gas connections in the mountain range. He summoned them to a conciliation hearing for May 31 in person.
The claim had arisen because since July 2022 the company Camuzzi, which provides gas service in the Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén mountain range, decided close gas connections throughout the region due to the lack of complementary works for the mountain gas pipeline that affected the provision of supply.
