Saturday, May 29, 2010

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consequences: State still Cordoba despite Bonetto

By Gustavo Molina. Journalist (Guest Columnist) . EPEC president, Daniel Bonetto flatly denied that the company could no longer be under the purview provincial and stressed that "this Board will to continue defending the company from all Cordoba and its workers. "
With 31 years spent in the company, Bonetto fulfilled the dream of every employee, direct the destiny of their company.
However, autumn afternoon Saturday March 25, 2000, when José de la Sota ruled Cordoba and Bonetto, a deputy provincial PJ, the House approved by a majority Cordoba file available to 571/00 the privatization of EPEC and the Bank of Cordoba. 16.34
At that Saturday, after approving the process, the president of Deputies, Esteban Dominatrix invited Bonetto to lower the national flag.
"I was in charge of defending the position that had to approve the new State Law De la Sota. I remember very well Bonetto voting for the privatization of EPEC " Alfredo Blanco told former radical legislator and current dean of the Faculty of Economics, UNC.
While Juan Pablo Quinteros, member of the regulator juecismo d and Utilities (ERSEP), said: "Mr Bonetto try to install that those who criticize the deplorable
at the helm of EPEC, we have a alleged animus against public companies. In March 2000, Bonetto chaired the Bicameral Commission for Monitoring and Control of Incorporation of Public Sector Private Equity. And after approving the privatization of state enterprises, Bonetto lowered much more than teach country, with flags lowered misconduct for which he gave his life Agustín Tosco. " May 29 Just a joke sounds. Gas

inadequate and expensive "ANSeS going to charge you begin to work Pilar. And by contract, we'll sell the Mw / ha $ 57 ANSeS and we will pay approximately $ 22 and is indicated by item ", had explained Daniel Bonetto, president of the company Cordoba.
The most optimistic estimates indicate that production of each Mw / h EPEC will cost $ 51, therefore, cost-benefit equation is balanced, if using gas turbines. But even well, the six surplus dollars would be insufficient to repay the debt with ANSeS. Pilar
The plant runs on gas, then get a fatal problem: the shortage of this fuel, as noted its own Department of Energy's Office.
In three years, natural gas production in Argentina will fall by 25%: in 2009 Argentina was 50 billion cubic meters of gas, while in 2013,
only come to 37,400 million cubic meters .
"If we have no gas, how will we feed the Central Pilar?, We will have to buy diesel, which will surely be Venezuelan and low quality, or other business of PDVSA and Julio de Vido, Juan Pablo Quinteros shoots, vocal juecista in ERSEP. And he warns: "Here there is an operation of De Vido that everything he touches turns into silver for the crown. The ENARSA is a business unit of K, comes from the energy business. Do you know the Russian Mamushkas? Mr Bonetto is Simon Dasenchich, current CEO of ANSeS in Central Costanera, the largest power plant in Argentina. And Dasenchich is Julio de Vido, which in turn is Nestor Kirchner. "
For Civic Front leader, "if something was missing to complete the combo, is the appearance on the scene of unspeakable Hugo Moyano and trucks Pilar in the business. " Sergio Torres energy adviser of Senator Ramon Javier Mestre agrees and explains that "if we feed the gas plant in Pilar, we have a cost, but if we switched to diesel, fuel costs are multiplied eightfold. And the equation is negative. "
Energy Model Cordoba future
twilight
By Raul Olocco . (Former Secretary of Energy's Office). Córdoba suffered in recent times very serious lack of provision of electricity in households, commerce and service sectors and production. Y now there is shock and deep concern about the energy future of Cordoba, when analyzing the latest news from Cordova Energy Company (EPEC) and see the cold numbers of their balance sheets, the uncontrolled increase in the costs of their investments, after the award of the work of the Thermoelectric Power Pilar, because it is mortgaging the future.
Without economic resources, EPEC embarked on the purchase of new equipment Siemens. Also disregarded the lack of gas, the fuel of choice to power the plant, whose production declines from year to year and should be supplanted by diesel, pollution, higher costs and logistical complications supply, as a Mediterranean province and not a producer of hydrocarbons.
What decided the investment parameters of the Thermoelectric Power Plant Pilar?. From the award to date, only fourteen months. E
n all energy project at least be taken into account: full feasibility study: technical, economic, financial, tariff and environmental cost analysis and budget similar works nationally and internationally for purposes of determine the "Official Budget."
What these documents say and how to justify the increased costs after the work allotted, if business is not strategic or economically desirable?.
Do ANSeS funds are available to complete the full combined cycle and what are the conditions of the loan? Why
similar works of extreme necessity as a Transformer Station Arroyo Cabral will ANSeS financing or funds are available only when the work is awarded to certain construction companies?
transparency in the energy sector away from the shadows, so you should carefully consider the process for awarding and monitoring of construction of Arroyo Cabral and destiny given to it by EPEC since it was founded. There are actions not require additional financial investment to improve our quality of life, insist on them.
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the nation could take over the management of the provincial company. The power of Cordoba, a "nail" between the claims of ANSES received $ 300 million to expand its capacity, but now can not pay the fees.
The bonus Anses Epec to exceed U $ S 500 million The title is to repay a bridge loan agency to finance the final leg of the new plant in Pilar.
Usina Pilar The new plant is already "eat" 90% of the cost in dollars Pilar The plant could end up costing 30% more than in the original project.
Energy The bonus for Pilar in Final Stage the province's decision to issue a bond for more than 500 million dollars on behalf of EPEC for funding transformation of the power station is traveling the stretch Pilar final definitions.
Córdoba Energy: very near self-sufficiency Within a week, will open the power plant in Pilar, which guarantees the energy consumed in the Capital.
fell in March oil and gas production natural gas production and oil continued in March with a downward trend "alarming."
At this rate, in 3 years 25% fall in gas production According to official data Energas, and in 2010 produced 9.6 percent less than last year.
Gas Why not invested in the system Falling exploration began before the devaluation and de-dollarization of all contracts for sale of gas at the wellhead .
In Epec Telecommunications, sales costs check The unit lost $ 4.9 billion last year and expenditures increased 151.4%.
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Photo, click to enlarge : 1-Daniel Bonetto (La Mañana de Córdoba), 2 - Central Building Epec (imageshack), 3 Transformer (LakeLiSun - Flickr), 4 - Lamp burned Epec, 5 - Illustration ( Chumbi ), 6 - Jose De la Sota opening Epec Telecommunications (La Voz del Interior)

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GRI Awards for best sustainability report: Fallacy!

We confirmed the fallacy that we suspected in an article on 5 April on the GRI Awards for best sustainability report. In that article (GRI Awards for best sustainability report: Fallacy?, Www.cumpetere.blogspot.com), based on the award finalists were wondering if it would be a fallacy, with question mark. Now with the end results are confirmed, GRI Awards are a fallacy!, With exclamation points.


six awards have been handed over and the winners are ... ... ... ... ...! SURPRISE !!!!..... six Brazilian companies. Three awards to the same company, Banco do Brasil and the other three to Vale, the company Natura Cosmetics and Banco Bradesco. Already

May 27, 2008 (Does that seem GRI Awards and the Eurovision?, Www.cumpetere, blogspot.com) warned of the difficulties in issuing awards for sustainability reporting based on the popular vote and we showed almost impossible to have a reader to read, much less compare various reports. I compared it to the Eurovision Awards, where citizens of a country (who can not vote for the song from your country) voted for the neighboring countries which have an affinity. The case of the GRI is worse, the supposed readers vote for their country reports. This is a competition where the audience like it, not competitors. Hopefully

World Cup is decided on the field and not in the stands! If not, South Africa will win.

In the first edition of the awards we showed the low probability that the winners were mostly from Brazil and India and none of the traditionally strong countries in sustainability reporting. In Brazil the first edition was the third country in the world votes, but the second in voting. Almost 80% of the votes of the Brazilian went to their country reports. For this edition we have the numbers of those who vote for their country, but one suspects that exceeded these ratios.


What we do is available at GRI's website is the geographical distribution of votes, but not voters. For example, for the award of Engagement ("Engagement") was 12,748 votes of which 82% were for reports from Brazil (of undisclosed origin.) India gained 10%, the rest of 8% for the other 11 countries. For the award of Investors had 1,991 votes, of which 84% went to Brazil.

Each elector voted for an average of 8 reports (which reading!)


appearances now or stay: All winners are from the same country. The country where the prizes are more promotion, the country's main sponsor of the prize (although we must congratulate and ethically decided to leave his report out of competition).


with runners already were showing a strange country allocation, if voters participate in the competition in many countries in an unbiased manner. We reproduce the table of finalists compared to the number of reports submitted to the GRI.


It turns out that the four winners are from the same country. Brazil has 66 reports submitted to the GRI of 1346.del 2008-2009. So it has 5% of the reports. If the selection was unbiased and would have voters from all countries in proportion to the number reports, the probability, a priori, that Brazil won a is 5% but that's won four of 0.0006%. Imagine a die with 20 sides. Pulled four times and four times out the same side. Possible but unlikely. Not to mention that win all 7 prizes.



Less likely is that the U.S. and Spain, with a ratio of GRI reports exceeding 10%, did not win any.


is true that the selection is not random. Should not be. By comparison only to illustrate the other extreme, that the selection is highly biased.


This is not to say that the reports are not the best, or that Brazil is a country of excellence in reporting. Are all known and very reputable companies, some models of sustainability. It is quite possible that their reports are the best. What we mean is that the methodology is completely inappropriate to select "better reporting." Already in the previous ballot and the finalists of this had been that the reports are selected with few votes and nationals of these countries. In a country where sustainability is so advanced, it is so nationalistic and its inhabitants are proud of their accomplishments as Brazil international is expected to vote for their businesses. Nothing bad. The methodology is inappropriate.


Does this matter? Overall, it a single award. It does count and plenty for four reasons: Because disrepute to sustainability (which is in doubt about whether facelift and this does not help) discredits the winners (which won a suspect), discredits sustainability reports (which are not taken seriously by many voters) and discredits the GRI.


the GRI Society needs a credible producing GRI guidelines to guide for responsible practices report, which will give its adoption.


GRI
But unfortunately falls victim to one of the worst practices of sustainability: the search for fame leads to irresponsible actions like this.


Please sir @ s of the GRI: cancel these awards and get on to produce and promote the use of guidelines. And if they give prizes, do it with a panel of expert, impartial, who have studied the reports.


PS In the interest of transparency I must report that I have no data on the origin of the votes in this issue, just where they went. It would be highly desirable that the GRI, following the transparency advocates also report where they came from the votes they received all 103 finalists.

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