“This is what I have been constantly saying, it cannot be that in the capital of Vaca Muerta and being the second gas reserve, we still have neighborhoods that do not have it. We got to work and here is the result,” she added.
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The mayor made the announcement during a tour of the drinking water project being carried out in Auca Mahuida, a neighborhood that has been waiting for the arrival of basic services for more than 15 years.
Not only in Auca Mahuida will gas be contracted, but for the 400 families throughout the city of Neuquén who live on municipal lands, we are going to develop the Dale Gas plan,” he insisted and reinforced: “The budget is approved, they are funds from the surplus destined for each of these works.”
He pointed out that this is possible by having “an efficient administration, we have the Municipality with organized accounts, it has no debt, we do not receive national or provincial funds.” To all this, the president of the Municipal Institute of Urban Planning and Habitat, Marco Zapata said that the drinking water work is 87% complete, in which 140 million pesos were invested.
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Currently, “we are finishing the last 20 meters of pipes, so we estimate that within two weeks the drinking water work will be completed,” said Zapata.
Regarding this neighborhood, Zapata indicated that the neighbors had been requesting the services for more than 15 years and we are already finishing with one of the most necessary works, which is access to drinking water.” For his part, Matías Cabrera, a reference for the neighborhood , assured that “for us who have lived in this neighborhood for more than 20 years it is very important.”
“Thanks to Mariano Gaido and Marco Zapata. We neighbors are very happy; We are more than 160 Lasa families who benefit from this work and all the work they did. Now – he continued – they also announced that they are going to do the work so that we have gas, which is also very important for us since we currently use firewood a lot.
Gas will be more expensive in Neuquén
In addition to the lack of national contributions for this type of work, which will be undertaken by the Municipality, there was a decision by the national government that complicates matters for the residents of Neuquén. Government published the new natural gas rate tables through networks and confirmed that the province of Neuquén will be one of the most affected in the entire country with increases greater than 1,000%.
The damage occurs twice. First of all, as anticipated +efrom his own gas price at the Point of Entry to the Transportation System (PIST) which underwent the highest updates in the country.
However, as for now The Cold Zones discount is maintained, this results in a lower variable charge than in other areas, but which suffered a greater increase. That is, the price per cubic meter consumed.
