ZAGREB, April 1 (Hina) - The Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HHO) and the Eko Kvarner non-government environmental association have requested the government to inform the public about planned benefits from the project
Druzba-Adria as well as about possible risks and ways to avoid them.
ZAGREB, April 1 (Hina) - The Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights (HHO) and the Eko Kvarner non-government environmental
association have requested the government to inform the public
about planned benefits from the project Druzba-Adria as well as
about possible risks and ways to avoid them. #L#
The two associations believe the project should be temporarily
stopped due to the current controversy surrounding it, until all
data is obtained.
In December last year the Croatian government signed an agreement
with five other countries joining in the Druzba-Adria project, the
purpose of which is to increase the export of Russian oil by
transporting it via an oil pipeline to Omisalj on the island of Krk,
from where it would be transported by tankers via the Adriatic to
the western markets.
The Minister of Environmental Protection and Zoning, Bozo
Kovacevic, told reporters today it was not the ministry but the
JANAF (Adriatic Oil Pipeline) company that was in charge of drawing
up a study on the effect of the project on the environment.
(hina) rml sb