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Starts the IV Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum in Barcelona
11/03/2009
March 11, 2009
Under the slogan ' the energy in the Mediterranean: sustainable growth and regional harmonization ', the IV Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum has today opened its doors until next Friday at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I in Barcelona. The event addressed in its programme sustainable growth and regional cooperation to ensure supply, technology transfer, security, and the financing of new energy projects.
The Chairman of the Club Spanish of energy and of Repsol, Antonio Brufau, said during the official opening of the Forum: "the effect of the current economic crisis in the energy industry implies a bottle neck as soon as the demand to recover the level of recent years". For its part, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, José Montilla, commented: "Despite the technological efforts that have been made, these have not been sufficient to cover the current demand for energy." "Any energy policy of the future must comply with the security of supply to ensure sustainability". As future challenges, Montilla highlighted the sustainability, the guarantee of security and the quality of the supply.
