The former Secretary of Energy of the Nation, Darío Martínez, expressed that “the ineffectiveness, the underestimation, plus the Government’s lack of knowledge about energy matters, only make energy cost more and more for the country, for each consumer and for the State.” He denounced that Javier Milei pays Bolivian gas five times more expensive. “Improvisation and ignorance of the Government cost another US$ 185 million to the country“, critical.
Martínez added that “the initial suspension of the reversal work of the Northern Gasduct and the Compression of GNK I necessarily led to higher costs due to the need to import more LNG and Bolivian gas at prices grossly higher than what is paid for Vaca gas. Dead”.
He explained that “when the Milei government took office, its chancellor, who was its Minister of Public Works and its Secretary of Energy, denigrated both public works, the GNK and the reversal of the Northern Gas Pipeline, and With that fundamentally obtuse and loaded with liberal ideologism, they suspended both works.”
The former official stated that “at that same moment we explained that the cost of the suspension of both works was going to lead to a greater deficit for the State this winter, and higher cost of energy for the country, because in particular, to supply the north of Argentina, they were going to depend exclusively on Bolivian gas, at the infinite price they wanted to set given the extreme need and the weakness of our Government. In Milei terms: a price derived from an urgent demand and a unique supply.”
Martínez expressed that “if there is no reversal of the Northern Gasduct, there is no possibility of bringing gas from Vaca Muerta, and not even regasified LNG from Escobar, to the Region that is from the north of Córdoba to the northern border of the country, and this affects not only the supply of gas, but also that of electrical energy, since it leaves the important thermal plants in that region without fuel.”
Finally, Martínez declared that “they realized this problem very late, when the water reached their necks, and at that moment, the privatization of public works ended, and the suspension of the works in progress, but it was already late. Today Milei will pay Bolivia up to US$ 21 MMbtu for 4 million m3 per day in the winter, when the reversal works would have made it possible to bring 5 million m3 per day of gas from Vaca Muerta at US$ 4..
