Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s elected president launched the harshest warning this Tuesday morning “Don’t challenge us. The plebiscite is a duty. I want to achieve a consensus, but I don’t want to bend the plebiscite that wants clean energy,” he said on his Twitter account since he won the June 19 election.
“The public owner freely chooses its members in companies that represent it. It is the representation of the people”Added a direct message about the Ecopetrol board.
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Petro’s message is a response to a journalistic report naming members of the most important company in the country.
The article in the newspaper La República states that changes in this period can only be made through a new statute reform.
And he says the organization’s board of directors is headed by Luis Guillermo Echeverri and consists of Cecilia María Vélez White; German Eduardo Quintero Rojas; Hernando Ramirez Plazas; Carlos Gustavo Cano Sanz; Sergio Restrepo Isaza; Luis Santiago Perdomo Maldonado; and Esteban Piedrahita Uribe.
Juan Posada was previously a member of the oil company’s board of directors, but was elected president of the ISA.
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Although Petro does not specifically reject any of the names, he says, “the public owner freely chooses its members in companies that represent him. He is the representation of the people.”
As it turns out, a ratification means that the National Government, which it will chair from 2022-2026, wants to see its delegates in the company.
Petro said he would seek the transition of clean energy in Colombia. In an interview with EL TIEMPO during the Petro campaign, he said: “The first decision I will make is to stop the oil exploration contract in Colombia. This is a clear message: We are moving towards a productive economy, not an extractivist one.”
Do you really measure the impact of such a decision? “Yes. It will be a calm but safe and serious transition. My clear message to all actors of society and the economy is that we are starting another type of economy,” he replied.
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“The priority is the transition to clean energy. This will be the foundation in my government. We have amazing conditions because, for example, La Guajira is the largest continental region in the world with the persistence and speed of the winds. The Guajiro wind can produce 35 gigabytes. That is twice the energy we consume in the country. La Guajira and César are Colombia’s They are the regions that receive the most solar radiation during the year, we should take advantage of this even to export it,” he added. at that moment.
And he explained: “Ecopetrol also needs to be transformed. This is not my announcement, it’s from the world. I’m not the one saying that the end of oil and coal will come, this is the world.. It has some dates, some schedules, some intensities, which are faster in the case of coal than oil. This is not a domestic political decision, but a global one. If there is no one to buy Colombian coal or oil, we must react immediately. A company like Ecopetrol has all the transformation possibilities and is fully geared towards solar and wind power.”
Petro already told Cambio magazine: “It’s a transition, let’s say gradual. The word transition implies gradual. They wanted to show that it’s for August 8th. It’s not. It’s not. The downvotes are derived from this belief. It’s not that we’re not going to do research, because there are about 180 in effect. There is a contract. What I am saying is that there will be no new exploration contracts. Short-term What should be done to manage the proven oil reserves we have. There are different dates. The dates depend on the amount of oil we export. that measures time. It’s like a toggle joystick.”
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