Owners of real estate on direction of building Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline to get compensations for losses

Chisinau, 12 March /MOLDPRES/ - The owners of real estate on the direction of the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline, who are to be expropriated, will get compensations from the state, under a draft approved by the government today.   

The document details the procedure of payment of the compensation to people who own farmlands, on which the gas pipeline will be constructed. Through amendments and completions proposed for the draft law, decision-makers establish a special procedure of detailed expropriation, in order to remove any risk or obstacle in the process of enforcing the draft, without affecting the carrying out of the gas pipeline’s construction, Economics and Infrastructure Minister Chiril Gaburici said at the cabinet meeting.    

The procedure of payment of the compensations to the owners and holders of titles on real estate (lands) is detailed too. “The government assumes full responsibility for the compensation of the damages brought to lands, plantations, buildings, non-harvested crop, as well as for other imputable damages,” Chiril Gaburici said.      

According to the amendments, the state will make compensations of losses to expropriated people in a period of 90 days after the day of issuance of the decision on setting the sum of compensation at the most.   

The draft law was worked out in the context of the actions undertaken by the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry, in order to facilitate the construction of the gas transportation pipeline Ungheni-Chisinau, and its main goal is to strengthen Moldova’s energy security through diversifying the sources of providing natural gas, which is an objective of strategic importance. The document is to be submitted to parliament for examination and approval.     

In mid-2017, the parliament declared the Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline as public utility of national interest. The state will buy from owners the lands through which the pipeline is to pass. The cost of the real estate is estimated at 600,000 euros.   

The gas pipeline will have a length of 120 km and will pass through the settlements: Radenii Vechi, Todiresti, Parlita, Tuzara, Pitusca, Niscani, Temeleuti, Peticeni, Valcinet, Sadova, Calarasi. Also, the pipeline will pass through unincorporated lands of the villages Tohatin, Stauceni, Gratiesti and Gidighici of the Chisinau municipalities.  

The pipeline, which will provide gas supply from Romania, is to be completed by late 2018, with about 113 million euros needed for its construction. As much as 92 million euros of this sum will be provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank and the European Commission.   

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)