The Metropolitan Court of Budapest obliged the Hungarian Power Companies Ltd. (MVM Zrt.) to disclose all data pertaining to the Lévai project on the planned expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant. The company must disclose the affected data within 15 days.

The Paks Nuclear Power Plant (Paksi Atomerőmű) disclosed the complete contracts of the Teller project related to the planned expansion of the plant. As we have reported earlier, following the Energiaklub’s successful data request suit the company disclosed the contracts about the planned nuclear power plant expansion but it redacted several sections, thus making them illegible. In order to get to know these details we submitted another request to the Power Plant, and it provided the whole unabridged material this time.

What can we know of energy issues? How and where is information on energy accessible? Which details concern the public and which are suppressed? What is published and how by the press? How is information leaked? How was the Fukushima accident presented by the Hungarian media?

British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.

In its verdict of Wednesday, the Tolna County Court binds Paksi Atomerőmű Zrt. to disclose data of the Teller project that serves as a basis to the planned expansion of the nuclear power plant. The respondent shall disclose the documents regarding the total costs of the project and agreements made in the course of the project within 15 days. In its verdict of Wednesday, the Tolna County Court binds Paksi Atomerőmű Zrt. to disclose data of the Teller project that serves as a basis to the planned expansion of the nuclear power plant. The respondent shall disclose the documents regarding the total costs of the project and agreements made in the course of the project within 15 days.

It was not investigated whether surplus nuclear energy is needed and the public was not informed about the preparations - says the position paper, published by Sándor Fülöp, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations. The Ombudsman's Office investigated the circumstances of the parliamentary resolution on the expansion of Paks Nuclear Power Plant, to the appeal of Energiaklub.

The Metropolitan Court of Budapest postponed the suit instituted by the Energia Klub against the Hungarian Hydrocarbon Stockpiling Association (MSZKSZ) and  the MMBF Földgáztároló Zrt. to make the contracts of the strategic gas storage facility public. With its request for data pertaining to the strategic gas storage facility, the Energia Klub expects answers to the following questions: the question of this gas storage facility affecting the money of the consumers – more precisely, how can and should consumers be made pay for gigantic projects bringing profits to other persons? Why is it necessary to spend almost 500 billion forints in the course of decades for a project that is not a solution in practice anywhere else in the world? What kind of crisis requires the opening of the gas storage facility if such action was not needed even in the “great Hungarian” crisis of 2009? If the gas storage facility has a commercial capacity of 700 million cubic meters beside the 1.2 billion cubic meter security capacity, why should consumers support the commercial gain of the company and should they at all?

While the atomic profession has long been promising open and honest communication to the public sensitive to nuclear issues, it is not willing to present the costs of the preparation project for the planned expansion in Paks. The Energia Klub considers it data of public utility and chose to institute legal action against Paks for the publicity of such information.The Energia Klub sues the Paks Nuclear Power Plant because it did not make the details of the so-called Teller project pertaining to the expansion of the nuclear power plant public. The Energia Klub requested certain information (primarily information on the costs of the project and contracts made in the framework of the project) of the Teller project conducted in the Paks Nuclear Power Plant before the decision of the parliament in 2009, as this is information of public utility according to the Energia Klub.

Energia Klub and the BCE Corruption Research Centre is honored to invite you to participate in the conference:  Corrupted Energies - A conference on energy, state, transparency and corruption Why is the relation of energy and the state controversial? To what extent is regulation responsible for infringements? How corruption pervades the energy market? What did the Hungarian society lose because of all of these? These are the questions targeted at the conference, where the results of the Control Energy Project is presented.