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		<title>Excited to start the works on the site — Thomas Ralph, Lead Advisor at Fluor for the Lithuanian LNG terminal project</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/03/excited-to-start-the-works-on-the-site-%e2%80%94-thomas-ralph-lead-advisor-at-fluor-for-the-lithuanian-lng-terminal-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klaipeda Sea Port]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article from Terminalas magazine, published by oil.lt.
Energy independence so rigorously sought after by Lithuania – a country of honorable and inspiring history is one of the reasons that the Lithuanian LNG terminal stands out from among other projects managed by Thomas Ralph, Lead Advisor at Fluor for the Lithuanian LNG terminal project. Today Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrius Kubilius and Dutch gas giants discuss strategic gas market prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/andrius-kubilius-and-dutch-gas-giants-discuss-strategic-gas-market-prospects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Gas Exchange]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and the delegation continue the working visit in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Prime Minister A. Kubilius has met with two huge Dutch gas companies  GasTerra and Nederlandse Gasunie at the Lithuanian Embassy in the Hague,  where they have discussed gas market developments in Europe and the  world, gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing energy costs — challenge for manufacturing, construction and transport</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/growing-energy-costs-%e2%80%94-challenge-for-manufacturing-construction-and-transport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal in Lithuania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Growing energy costs pose a threat on the profits of manufacturing, construction and transport enterprises. An increase in the energy needs would mean that these sectors may face losses, informs consulting company KPMG Baltics, delfi.lt wrote on 26 January.
According to the analysts of KPMG, Lithuania‘s energetic vulnerability should be decreased by the diversification of energy supply as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best medicine for economy</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/best-medicine-for-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/02/best-medicine-for-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jekaterina Rojaka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal in Lithuania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nerijus Maciulis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Žygimantas Mauricas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article from Terminal magazine, published by oil.lt.
The overall energy resource disbalance in Lithuania is steadily increasing and has virtually exploded in the recent years.  In the course of one year LTL 8 bn outflow from Lithuania as payment for gas, oil and electricity which has a significant negative effect upon the national economy.   Economists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy security – an objective for the entire Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/01/energy-security-%e2%80%93-an-objective-for-the-entire-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU 3rd Energy Package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article published by oil.lt, Arūnas Molis, Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University answers the questions of &#8220;Terminal&#8221; 
Up till now Lithuania has been receiving natural gas from a single supplier only.  What will the Terminal mean to us when commissioned? 
The terminal will contribute to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 percent of inhabitants think that Lithuania needs LNG terminal</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/29/60-percent-of-inhabitants-think-that-lithuania-needs-lng-terminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opinion poll]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public opinion poll, conducted in more than 17 towns and 56 villages in January, has shown that people support Lithuania’s objective to build the liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, 15min.lt reported on 26 January.
The survey&#8217;s results have shown that the majority of Lithuania&#8217;s residents &#8211; 60 per cent &#8211; agreed with the necessity of LNG [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klaipėda is preparing proposals on compensations for LNG terminal</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/26/klaipeda-is-preparing-proposals-on-compensations-for-lng-terminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Construction and building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Klaipeda Sea Port]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vytautas Grubliauskas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=10277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Klaipėda municipality&#8217;s request, a new work group was set up under the Government, which was assigned to arrange compensations for citizens, who will experience discomfort due to the construction of liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, 15min.lt reported on 25 January.
A week ago, Klaipėda mayor Vytautas Grubliauskas presented open-ended list of proposals, which involves social, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visaginas NPP funding request not to be supported</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/26/visaginas-npp-funding-request-not-to-be-supported/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/26/visaginas-npp-funding-request-not-to-be-supported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Nuclear Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latvia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saeima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valdis Dombrovskis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 25th of January, Saeima (Latvian Parliament) did not  support Prime-minister Valdis Dombrovskis’ request «Of Latvia’s cooperation in  funding the construction of Visaginas NPP», bnn-news.com reports.
As Saeima Request commission Chairman Romualds Razuks pointed out:  «The commission denied this request, believing that, the work of  Ministry of Economy and government at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortum Heat Lithuania is planning to build a power plant in Kaunas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/24/fortum-heat-lithuania-is-planning-to-build-a-power-plant-in-kaunas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic Energy Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Construction and building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction of Electricity Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kupčinskas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cogeneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fortum Heat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaunas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaunas Free Economic Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaunas Heat and Power Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The executives of Fortum Heat Lithuania visited Kaunas City Municipality on Friday, 20 January. During the appointment, city mayor Andrius Kupčinskas was informed about the decision to start the development of the Cogeneration Power Plant project in Kaunas. The project could be worth up to EUR 200 million (690 million Litas), delfi.lt reported on 23 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INPP closure stalled by Russian-German friendship</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/23/inpp-closure-stalled-by-russian-german-friendship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/23/inpp-closure-stalled-by-russian-german-friendship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Nuclear Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arvydas Sekmokas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nukem Technologies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian politicians might have yielded up in the fight against company Nukem, which is delaying INPP’s (Ignalina’s Nuclear Power Plant) closure and requires more funds, due to the Germany-Russia friendship, delfi.lt wrote on 16 January.
Recently Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas confirmed that almost a billion of Euros have vanished during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klaipėdos Nafta has selected a supplier of floating liquefied gas storage (FSRU)</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/23/klaipedos-nafta-has-selected-a-supplier-of-floating-liquefied-gas-storage-fsru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Höegh LNG]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LNG terminal in Lithuania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, January 23, 2012, AB  Klaipėdos Nafta selected a supplier of floating liquefied gas storage at  liquefied natural gas terminal (hereinafter – LNG), Norwegian company  Höegh LNG. The contract with this company is to be concluded in near  future, states the company&#8217;s press release.
„We are pleased to announce that  we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kubilius does not comment just yet on Dalkia’s plans to invest LTL 500 million in a biomass power plant in Vilnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/22/kubilius-does-not-comment-just-yet-on-dalkia%e2%80%99s-plans-to-invest-ltl-500-million-in-a-biomass-power-plant-in-vilnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arturas Zuokas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomass power plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalkia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius says he doesn’t want to assess just yet he plans of the French company Dalkia to invest LTL 500 million in the construction of a biofuel power plant in Vilnius, 15min.lt reported on 18 January.
Dalkia intends to invest LTL 500 million in the construction of a biomass power plant in Vilnius. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divided we stand and divided we fall: the NB8 vis-à-vis the Russian petrocracy, by Rydström</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/20/divided-we-stand-and-divided-we-fall-the-nb8-vis-a-vis-the-russian-petrocracy-by-rydstrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fredrik Rydström]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When brushing through reports concerning energy security in the 1990s published by major international organizations, such as the IMF or various EU institutions, one can not help to get struck by how the authors, in contrast to the current situation, portray Lithuania’s energy future in vivid colours. Back then, analysts argued, Lithuania enjoyed cheap Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarter of a billion-worth biomass power plant planned in Kaunas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/12/quarter-of-a-billion-worth-biomass-power-plant-planned-in-kaunas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arvydas Sekmokas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10 January, the Energy Minister Arvydas           Sekmokas and other officials endorsed plans of           construction of           new biomass power plant in Kaunas, on the territory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania could take revenge for Brussels unfulfilled promises by once again launching the Ignalina NPP</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/10/lithuania-could-take-revenge-for-brussels-unfulfilled-promises-by-once-again-launching-the-ignalina-npp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arvydas Darulis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Petras Auštrevičius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the European Commission decided the closure of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) requires far less money than promised, Lithuania could restart its nuclear reactors, TV3&#8217;s show Week’s Commentaries reported on Sunday. Officials acknowledge that the second power unit could resume work, but it would cost hundreds of millions and damage relations with Brussels, delfi.lt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four out of five fears of a possible energy pressure from Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/07/four-out-of-five-fears-of-a-possible-energy-pressure-from-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia may restrict or stop supplying energy resources, thinks 78 percent of the surveyed Lithuanians, delfi.lt wrote on 4 January.
And only 13 percent denies such a possibility. The survey was conducted by &#8220;Sprinter Research&#8221;.
Majority of the population (79 percent) agrees that Lithuania would greatly increase its energy independence from Russia, if the electricity network was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial stability, energy and pension reform our main goals for 2012 &#8211; PM</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/03/financials-stability-pensions-reform-and-energy-our-main-goal-for-2012-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s financial stability, energy projects and the reform of pension system; those are the key priorities for the Lithuanian government in 2012, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius told the Lithuanian business daily Verslo Zinios on 4 January.
“Financial stability will be one of the key priorities considering those problems in the euro zone. The second task is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latvia is seeking 15-20% of the shares of Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/31/latvia-is-seeking-15-20-of-the-shares-of-visaginas-nuclear-power-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of the Latvian Government Valdis Dombrovskis stated that Latvia is seeking 15-20% of the Visaginas nuclear power plant&#8217; stock, alfa.lt reported on 23 December.
&#8220;We are going to participate in this project and are now considering the specific numbers of our shares, said V. Dombrovskis during an interview in Riga on 23 December. &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden’s ABB started manufacturing NordBalt cable</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/27/sweden%e2%80%99s-abb-started-manufacturing-nordbalt-cable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweden’s ABB has started to manufacture the 900 kilometres cable, for NordBalt power link, which will connect Lithuania and Sweden.  The cable will be manufactured in 15 months and will link Lithuania’s and Sweden’s power grids.
“All measures planned with respect to NordBalt are being implemented as scheduled. We have announced international contract tenders, obtained all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitachi – Poland never took Visaginas’ project seriously</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/23/hitachi-%e2%80%93-poland-never-took-visaginas%e2%80%99-project-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Poland suspended its participation in the Visaginas’ Nuclear Power Plant project will have no impact on the further course of the project: strategic Japanese investor Hitachi determined to continue participating fully in the project, delfi.lt wrote on 13 December.
“The fact that Poland stopped its participation does not diminish the significance of the [...]]]></description>
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