Roger Torrent ‘appropriates’ the Barcelona-Marseille gasoline pipeline: “He will promote power sovereignty”

The Minister of Business and Labor of the Generalitat, Roger Torrent, has defended this Wednesday the mission of the Barcelona-Marseille gasoline pipeline, permitted since he considers that Catalonia wants “initiatives that promote power sovereignty”.

In response to a query from the CUP within the management session to the Government within the plenary session of the Parliament, Torrent defined that in the mean time inexperienced hydrogen shouldn’t be able to be consumed on an enormous scale however “within the coming years will probably be a key aspect within the combine decarbonized power”.

He has maintained that Catalonia can “technologically lead this power vector”, which he assures will serve to decarbonise the Catalan trade, and has highlighted that the Government, analysis facilities and client and producer corporations have come collectively to place Catalonia on the hydrogen map inexperienced, he stated verbatim.

In search of EU funds to advertise inexperienced hydrogen

“This implies analysis, selling the ecosystem of client and producer corporations, and accompanying transport infrastructures in a European key”, highlighted the minister in reference to the gasoline pipeline, and added that the Government desires to seize the sources that the EU will allocate within the promotion of inexperienced hydrogen as a result of it’s going to imply financial development.

In response to a different query, from the comuns, concerning the Catalan labor market, Torrent has assured that employment insurance policies might be a “essential aspect for the 2023 Budgets”, and has argued that the resilience of the world of labor in Catalonia is because of the energetic work insurance policies of the Government.