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Road maintenance and construction funding requires a poltical decision and a discussion within society while, for instance, a €40-per-month road tax on vehicles would ensure current needs are met, likely incoming Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Secretary General Ahti Kuningas says.
One of the main road construction unions, the Estonian Infrastructure Construction Association (ESTEL) is holding a demonstration outside the Riigikogu Tuesday, highlighting what it says is serious repercussions from the ever-deepening under-funding of Estonia's roads.
One of the main road construction unions, the Estonian Infrastructure Construction Association (ESTEL) is holding a demonstration outside the Riigikogu Tuesday, highlighting what it says is serious repercussions from the ever-deepening under-funding of Estonia's roads.
European Union regulations do not permit favoring firms from one member state over another, in terms of access to a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FRSU) due to arrive off the coast of Finland, to supply both that country and Estonia with their Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) needs over the winter, a former, long-serving head of the Competition Authority (Konkurentsiamet) says.
The Estonian state opposes a European Commission plan to impose a windfall tax on electricity generators who use fossil fuels and to cap revenues for renewables companies, daily Postimees reports.
The Estonian state has said it does not support a European Commission proposal to install a windfall tax on energy companies, as a measure aimed at alleviating the current energy crisis.
While the food industry requires fast solutions on energy input prices, if soaring inflation is to be brought under control, at least according to the head of a sector lobby group, the government is only to make specific decisions on potential support to business later this month.
Contingency plans in place in Estonia would deal with a situation where oil shale-burning power stations in the Narva area going off-line in the event of the Russian Federation draining a Soviet-built reservoir, which spans the border between the two countries.
The government has allocated €63 million to the Estonian Stockpiling Agency to pay for 250 gigawatt-hours of gas purchased at the third national tender for natural gas stockpiles. Three tenders have now filled half of the government's target of 1 terawatt-hours.
Minister of Entrepreneurship and IT Kristjan Järvan (Isamaa) said that the state's universal electricity service package will cost about the same as the current fixed-price packages.