Postimees Digest, Wednesday, April 3
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Nature protectors vow to fight Paldiski LNG terminal.
The Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) and the Estonian Ornithological Society vow to fight the state's plan to construct an LNG terminal and a major power plant in the area for as long as possible as the organizations believe it would be too much for the peninsula's wildlife.
Chief of information at ELF Kertu Hool said that representatives of the two organizations have met with the terminal's developers and concluded they see no compromise in a situation where they believe the terminal should be built somewhere else. Hool said that the court has given ELF preliminary legal protection and that the developers cannot start building the terminal before a ruling is made.
Eesti Energia starts selling gas.
State-owned energy giant Eesti Energia has launched sale of gas to select clients to put its sales team to the test. Member of the board Margus Kaasik said that the gas the company is selling comes from Eesti Gaas and that if the project pays off, the energy company plans to sell gas in all the Baltic countries.
Kaasik said that the company has a free market sales team that is capable of selling other commodities besides energy. The company expects the government to liberalize the gas market however. The Competition Board has issued gas sales permits to 19 companies besides market leader Eesti Gaas while Eesti Energia is the only one that does not depend on transmission network operator EG Võrguteenused.
Ghost Click court case launched
Yesterday, Harju County Court took up the so-called Ghost Click case concerning a Tartu computer specialist and one-time head of Äripäev-awarded IT-company Rove Digital, Vladimir Tšaštšin, his mother Valentina Tšaštšina and Timur Gerassimenko, Dmitri Jegorov, and Konstantin Poltev.
Public prosecutor Piret Paukštys accuses all in money laundering and belonging to a criminal ring. The accused include, as legal persons, five companies linked with these same persons.
The case has attracted much attention due to the United States claiming these four men’s extradition by Estonia, to accuse them in computer crimes in New York Southern Circuit Court, and Tšaštšin also in money laundering.