If France persists in its refusal to expand the gas interconnection with the Iberian Peninsula to facilitate exports to the rest of the EU countries, Spain will opt for a gas pipeline with Italy. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has given wings to this path, with greater force than ever, after the Executive of Emmanuel Macron has reiterated in recent hours its rejection of the construction of this infrastructure across the Pyrenees, known as MidCat.
Not even the pressure from Germany, one of the European countries with the greatest dependence on Russian gas, which has spent months asking for this gas pipeline to be promoted in order to have alternative supply routes, has made a dent in the French, who insist on the same thing: that it would take much to be operational and that goes against its objective is to do without fossil fuels in 2050, an argument that loses force because it would also transport green hydrogen.
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Just a few days after the MMinistry for the French Ecological Transition reiterate this position, Sánchez, who is in Bogotá this Wednesday on the first stop of his Latin American tour of Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras, warned that “if we see difficulties in accelerating” this gas pipeline, the submarine connection with Italy will be chosen, a project that both countries are already studying. “If plan A doesn’t work out, plan B will have to be found,” he stressed.
Last May, the Italian gas transport manager snam and the Spanish energy company Enagás signed a memorandum of understanding for the feasibility study to build a gas pipeline between Spain and Italy.