AL-AKHBAR: TABOURIAN DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF REFORM PLAN FOR ELECTRICITY SECTOR
NowLebanon
July 17 2009
Lebanon
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday that the Higher Council
for Privatization took Energy Minister Alain Tabourian and other
electricity sector employees by surprise when it released a summarized
report called "the Reform Plan for the Electricity Sector."
The report included "new elements pertaining to the implementation
of the plan up until the end of June 2009."
Tabourian denied any prior knowledge of the report, saying that the
council or any other party had not notified him of the plan.
Also according to the report, outgoing Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
and his team will not listen to any ideas addressing the country’s
electricity problem, unless they involve the private sector in the
production, distribution and levying of fees as well as in increasing
the tariffs paid by consumers.