Around 400 families will be left without heating, the boiler plant in Skerlićeva Street to be shut down tomorrow

The public utility company „Heating“ Pljevlja has informed its users that it received a notice this morning from the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Northern Region Development, led by Damjan Ćulafić, stating that the boiler facility of the heating plant in Skerlićeva Street will be sealed tomorrow at noon. As a result, in the middle of winter, around 400 families will be left without heating.

- The company is forced to comply with the decision and shut down the boilers due to the criminal liability facing both the company and the responsible person, while at the same time expressing regret over the consequences this measure will have for the heating service users - the brief notice states, which readers provided to the ETV Portal.

In addition to private households, numerous institutions in the town will also be left without heating, including the Municipality, the Assembly building, the Cultural Center, the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office, the Basic Court, the Coal Mine, as well as other companies and institutions.

This is the epilogue of a crisis caused by alarming air pollution in the town, coming shortly after the Thermal Power Plant was put into trial operation following its environmental reconstruction.

Executives of the Electric Power Company, which operates the Thermal Power Plant, categorically rejected allegations that the plant is responsible for the enormous air pollution in Pljevlja.

As early as December 22nd, the Ministry issued a decision ordering the sealing of the boiler plant facility in Skerlićeva Street, but employees refused to carry it out.

At the time, Mayor Dario Vraneš told the daily newspaper „Vijesti“ that shutting down the heating plant was „classic retaliation, because the people of Pljevlja have finally raised their heads and opposed being poisoned“.

- In this way, the Ministry is trying to discipline the citizens - he said then.

In recent days, however, he has not made any public statements, and yesterday he did not support the civic protest organized in Pljevlja over the alarming air pollution in the town.