Govt. Creating Salty Desert From Neretva

SDP accuses Sanader for the cover-up of important information on HE power plant construction in BH, which would endanger the Neretva River.

-With the realisation of this project sea fish will be fished all the way to Capljina –Ivica Pancic points out, who believes the government will have greater consequences with the realisation of this project, named Gornji Horizonti (Upper Horizons), than it has with the Handball bill at the moment.

The opposition’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) believes Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is not protecting national interests with this kind of behaviour because in October of last year, a meeting was held by an assistant economy minister and the heads of HEP (Croatia's electro distribution) in Banja Luka with the highest representatives of the political and economical life of the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska, during which the Croatian delegation gave its full support to the project of construction of power plants on the Neretva River.

Namely, with the construction of the hydroelectric power plants, the Neretva confluent would be redirected into the Trebisnjica River basin, which would, in the opinion of many experts, endanger the Neretva. 

This meeting was concealed from the public in its entirety, and the results of the meeting were subsequently unconvincingly denied with a statement that it was a case of hydroelectric power plant Dubrovnik 2 being constructed which cannot be seen outside of the Gornji Horizonti project - said Social-Democratic Party Deputy President Zeljka Antunovic. She demanded transparency from the government and an end to secrecy each time a big project is concerned.

-With right we publicly point out our suspicion that the government prefers the interests of political lobbies outside Croatia, and comes out with unskilled denials - said Antunovic, pointing out that the current authorities were not concerned with ecological issues but only the capital interests of those who have unattainable arrangements with the government.

In addition, she believes the government is covering up serious issues with trivial matters such as watches, while Bosnia-Herzegovina, unlike us, is taking care of its national interests.