Austria Chancellor Karl Nekhammer threatened to take the gas storage in Gazprom in Salzprom in Salzburg Haida, if the company does not fill it with raw materials, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Chancellor recalled the importance of ensuring the safety of energy supply on the example of the creation of a strategic reserve of gas in the Republic.
in the interview with the online version of the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, speaking of the legal capacity of his government, published on Thursday, explained the importance of ensuring the safety of energy supply using the example of the creation of a strategic reserve of gas: “Gas storage facilities are filled out. We will carefully monitor the situation and If the Russian Gazprom does not fill our largest storage, then we will take it from them and give it to other suppliers, ”TASS reports the words of the Chancellor.
The publication clarified that we are talking about the Khaids repository in the federal land Salzburg, which currently de facto remains empty.
Nekhammer also said that Austria considers the possibilities of gas purchase from different suppliers and for the first time creates a state strategic gas reserve.
He clarified that Austria is not going to nationalize this gas storage: “This means” use or lose. “If you use it, then everything is okay, if you do not use it, other companies will take up it.” Hydes “is strategically important not only for Germany, but also for the Western regions of Austria. “