Environmentalists accuse power company of ministry tampering

  • 1999-11-11
  • By Brooke Donald
TALLINN – U.S. power company NRG Energy denied allegations that it urged the minister of economic affairs to ease pollution prevention regulations at two of the countries largest power plants."It is false, the issue of us having hinted about reducing emissions," Hillar Lauri, NRG representative in Estonia, said.Environmentalists accused NRG last week that it put pressure on Minister of Economic Affairs Mihkel Parnoja to change the environmental regulations laid out in a 1993 bilateral agreement between Finland and Estonia. The environmentalists said NRG wanted the state to lower emission st...
 
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