Comments on: Energy crisis sharpens http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/01/10/energy-crisis-sharpens/ neweurasia\'s latest on Tajikistan Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Tajikistan owes $49 million for gas to Uzbekistan http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/01/10/energy-crisis-sharpens/#comment-33573 tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Tajikistan owes $49 million for gas to Uzbekistan Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:56:33 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/01/10/energy-crisis-sharpens/#comment-33573 [...] 2007 when a price for gas was 100 USD, and I don’t know what is going to happen this year when the price was raised to 145 USD. I’m afraid we will not be able to pay that price and Uzbekistan will totally cut off gas for us. [...] […] 2007 when a price for gas was 100 USD, and I don’t know what is going to happen this year when the price was raised to 145 USD. I’m afraid we will not be able to pay that price and Uzbekistan will totally cut off gas for us. […]

]]> By: William LAWRENCE http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/01/10/energy-crisis-sharpens/#comment-33394 William LAWRENCE Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:19:22 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/01/10/energy-crisis-sharpens/#comment-33394 Although much of Dushanbe has been without electricity, water and gas supplies these past three days, it seems that much of Tajikistan's electricity is going to the every-hungry and power-greedy aluminium plant at Tursunzade, in the west of the country. What we don't know is where are the US $500m 2007 profits from that facility going. I think this money is NOT being used to finance more electricity infrastructure for the population, nor to improve domestic gas supplies. Although much of Dushanbe has been without electricity, water and gas supplies these past three days, it seems that much of Tajikistan’s electricity is going to the every-hungry and power-greedy aluminium plant at Tursunzade, in the west of the country. What we don’t know is where are the US $500m 2007 profits from that facility going. I think this money is NOT being used to finance more electricity infrastructure for the population, nor to improve domestic gas supplies.

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