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Jordan cuts off electricity supply to Lebanon
23 February 2011
BEIRUT: Jordanian authorities have suspended power supply to Lebanon due to the disruption of regional gas pipelines, according to a statement issued Tuesday by Lebanon’s state-run power company, Electricity du Liban.
The shutdown, which is likely to worsen existing power shortages in Lebanon, comes as a result of the destruction of natural gas lines from Egypt which had helped fuel Jordan’s electricity production. As a result of the destruction, which came during political turmoil in Egypt earlier this month, Jordan has been forced to reduce its electricity exports to both Syria and Lebanon,
EDL
said.
The shutdown of Jordanian supply to Lebanon began Sunday and could last approximately two weeks until the lines from Egypt to Jordan are repaired, according to EDL’s statement. The disruption has already produced “a negative impact” on local power supply in Lebanon,
EDL
added, without specifying the scale of the impact on Lebanese consumers.
“They [EDL] don’t count the people outside Beirut as much, because they think they got used to it,” Abisaid told the Daily Star, adding: “People will suffer.”
“The situation will worsen year after year,” he said, adding that little had improved since he left EDL in 1999 after nearly four decades of service. “I was working on a natural gas project 11 years ago and it still has not been implemented,” said Abisaid. – The Daily Star
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