He state prosecutor of Santa Cruz, Ramiro Castillowill advance in the presentation of the collective protection against him National state -Secretary of Energy of the Nation- and the National Gas Regulatory Entity (ENARGAS). From Caleta Olivia – raised last Friday – the users presented Villarroel, Karina Pereyra, Guillermina Márquez join.
Once the presentation in the northern province has passed, it is planned that the same action will be carried out this week in Río Gallegos. The Southern Opinion confirmed that they will demand that “declare unconstitutionality, nullity and inapplicability to all residential gas users of the Province of Santa Cruz included in the Chubut Sur tariff subzone and to the Provincial State, of Resolution No. 41/2024 of the National Energy Secretariat and ENARGAS Resolution No. 122/2024.
The lawyer specified that under the law Provincial No. 3,849 -recently sanctioned- was declared the “Energy Emergency throughout the territory of Santa Cruz until December 31, 2024.
“He gas and the electricity are essential services due to low temperatures and extreme weather conditions of our province.” That regulation authorizes the “Executive power to arbitrate all administrative measures and legal necessary for avoid excessive increases in the rates of gas and electricity public services, while entrust to protect to the citizens of Santa Cruz de unjustified increases and disproportionate access to public services, thus guaranteeing their access to energy at a fair and reasonable price“.
Prosecutor Castillo also argued that “the Provincial State furthermore it is user of the service in schools, hospitals, police stationsfire stations, CICs, and other offices and state entities. In all or most of these organizations and agencies the natural gas is essential for the development of the essential activities carried out there.”
Thus, the “Provincial state is seriously harmed by increases determined in the resolutions that are challenged, and thus falls within the figure of affected person under the terms of art. 43 of the National Constitution to initiate this collective protection.
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The State Attorney of Santa Cruz, Ramiro Castillo. PHOTO: GOVERNMENT
Background
In this scenario, the president of Distrigas, Marcelo de la Torrerecently recalled that in accordance with the new tariff schedule with the planned increases “means a very important impact for the santacruceñosthen the different complaints or requests from the neighbors were taken and the presentation was made in the Federal Court of Caleta Olivia“.
“He will go to the Federal Justice to try to stop them, because we have not had the results we expected.” He announced that, in parallel, progress will be made in the Rio Gallegos Court during this week.
“It is a claim that the governor has carried out (Claudio Vidal), he has gone to Nation to raise this situation and not having a clear response from the officials, it was decided, through the State Attorney, to present this protection,” he stated.
At this point, the president of Distrigas recalled that the Secretary of Energy issued a resolution which postpones for 30 days the increase in rates. “This it’s going to impact us and will see in the first days of August. In any case, this determination is not a State policy of not moving forward with the increases, but only postponing them,” he pointed out.
Of the tower He recalled that “it impacts us greatly, we do not collect money to pay for the gas we consume, in fact, the Ministry of Economy pays for it every month, our gas suppliers are ENARSA and Camuzziwith which we have debt and we have been trying to regularize, but the monthly billing is the responsibility of the Ministry of Economy.”
On state companypointed out that “does not collect enough to cover those costs And to that we increase an average for the company that will be around 600% of these values, that is, it is impossible to be able to pay it from Distrigas.”
“We spoke with the patagonian provincesWhat are they gas producers and we had a differential value that was eliminated by the national government, that is, we have the same rate for the entire country, when we are gas producers and live with inclement weather,” the official recalled.
