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Frugoni alertó que el proyecto de Hidrógeno Verde podría trasladarse a Chubut - Reporter Patagonia

article dated 2 May 2024. Article in Spanish but translated
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PROVINCIALSFrugoni warned that the Green Hydrogen project could be moved to Chubut

The legislator of the ARI Civic Coalition for the Atlantic Circuit, Fernando Frugoni, celebrated the half-sanction of the chapter of the Base Law that creates the Registry of Incentives for Large Investments (RIGI) “because it paves the way for the Green Hydrogen plant project in Sierra Grande” and hoped that “the government of Río Negro takes this possibility seriously, before the venture leaves Chubut.”

The parliamentarian warned the Rio Negro governor about “the urgency of focusing on this project, so that it stops being a campaign announcement and becomes a reality, because the president of the Chubut Business Federation, Carlos Lorenzo, stated that the Australian company is making investments” in said province with that objective.

Frugoni stressed that these investments, always according to Lorenzo, "translate into property rentals and the purchase of fields in Chubut, in order to install the plant that was planned for Sierra Grande in that province."
Based on what Governor Alberto Weretilneck said in his inauguration speech, on December 10, 2023, “I remember his promise, and I quote verbatim, to 'advance, complement and put all our energy into politics. of hydrogen carried out by Arabela Carreras and her entire team'.

"I hope that now and with this tool at its disposal, the provincial government will not have excuses and will urgently carry out all the necessary steps at the national level and with the investment company Fortescue Future Industries, to give certainty to the people of Rio Negro and, especially , to the inhabitants of Sierra Grande,” the journalist also stressed.

He reminded the provincial authorities “that this project, in addition to generating clean energy, will create direct jobs and will become a turning point in the history of the mountain people, comparable to what were the beginnings of the Hipasam mine. ”.

Frugoni highlighted that, “as the authorities of the previous government of Juntos Somos Río Negro stated without hesitation, the Green Hydrogen plant will generate around 15,000 direct jobs and 40,000 indirect jobs, which is much more than the mountain population, as well that the ruling party has the unique possibility of going down in history in that city.”

“This is an excellent opportunity for senators Mónica Silva from the ruling party and Kirchnerist Silvina García Larraburu to support with their vote the creation of the RIGI when the Bases Law is discussed in the Senate and demonstrate that they are committed to the industrial development of the province in general and Sierra Grande, in particular.”