Taraba does not want a Slovnaft incinerator. Experts warn that the refinery is introducing the public
18. Apr 2025 at 16:00
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Slovnaft is said to have errors in the evaluation report.
BRATISLAVA. Strategic investment in terms of hazardous waste disposal, and at the same time another source of pollution of the already polluted Bratislava atmosphere.
Slovnaft wants to build the largest Slovak incinerator with an annual capacity of 317,000 tons, called the Energy Recallation Center (via). For more than a year, activists from the surrounding city districts and municipalities have been criticized for over a year as well as environmental experts and waste management.
In the future, she could compete with the incinerator of the entrepreneur Ivan Kmotrík, who designs its ecological economy center near Skalica. It should pass 200,000 tonnes of waste annually, of which 135,000 should be burned.
We do not yet know whether the Ministry of the Environment will give Slovnaft and Godfather green. In the case of the incinerator in Skalica, the Czech Ministry of the Environment was also involved in the process.
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Minister of the Environment Tomáš Tarababa have recently been on your Facebook He said that Bratislava needs to modernize the already existing capacity of waste disposal equipment.
« Building another mega incinerator in Bratislava, and a few kilometers from the existing one, can be an enormous burden on the environment in the capital, » the Minister admitted in his contribution. The waste of Bratislava and the surrounding villages is already being disposed of by the OLO municipal incinerator, which will expand its capacity by 2030.
Taraba assures the Bratislava citizens that the intention of Slovnaft will undergo a detailed evaluation. He does not want Slovakia to take a « Swedish road ». The Nordic country has built too many incinerators and must import waste abroad.
« We will certainly not allow Slovakia to make a waste bin from Slovakia, » writes Taraba. However, he immediately admits that Slovakia needs the incinerator – but in places with a more convenient location and without the risk of threat to groundwater.
In the article you can read:
- In which, according to experts Slovnaft introduces,
- How can the implementation of the intention affect the quality of the air in the capital.
- What benefits according to Slovnaft will bring the incinerator to the Bratislava citizens,
- For what the incinerator in Copenhagen paid for.
The Slovnaftská incinerator for 200 million euros is in the process of assessing the environmental impact (EIA). In April 2025, the project was in the third stage of seven. This means that the investor has drawn up an evaluation report in which he responds to the comments of citizens, associations, affected municipalities and state institutions, and must be discussed with the public.
The meeting occurred on Wednesday 16th April in the Primate’s Palace, where the City City Council is located. Representatives of the refinery, the city and the Ministry of the Environment came. The lay public can also send comments on the intention to the address of the Ministry of the Environment by 23 April.
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In the article we summarize the basic information about the Slovnaft incinerator and the opinions of experts and civil activists who commented on the intention.
The SME daily will be the place of « over » using « the » incinerator « , as the environmental inspection does. Although the investor writes about « energetic appreciation », which is a technically correct expression, but in the boilers there will still be combustion.
They are said to be misleading the public
The public meeting was attended by the activist and local deputy of the village Rovinka Veronika Basta. For years, MEP has been criticizing Slovnaft for the style of communication, according to her, the public insufficiently informs about the pollutants that escape into the air in various processes in refineries.
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