Hristo Kovachki

mport of waste that is not intended for fuel will be banned, caretaker Minister of Environment, Assen Lichev, said on August 4. He has prepared an order and will submit it to the Council of Ministers within days. The aim is to stop the illegal incineration of such waste in power plants.

The Prosecutor's Office ordered the Minister of Ecology to immediately check whether there is illegal burning of waste in the Thermal Power Plants Bobov Dol, Brickel, Sliven and Pernik, which are linked to businessman Hristo Kovachki.

Today it will become clear which are  candidates submitted bids for the construction of a gas pipeline between the Bulgarian-Turkish and the Bulgarian-Serbian border.

Co-owned by energy boss Hristo Kovachki, Coalition Bobov Dol, transferred the concession for the Bobov Dol section from Bobovdolski Coal Basin to another company, which is also likely to have a connection with Kovachki.

The tender for the design, pipe supplier and contractor of the Bulgarian part of Turkish Stream, although formally not completed, has already had a clear winner. According to the Russian business edition RBK, the contract will be won by Dmitry Pumpanski's "Trumpet Metallurgical Company" (TMK).

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Lawmakers have agreed to establish a parliamentary committee that will look into Bulgaria's fuels market, on suspicions that some practices have been distorting competition since 2008.

Abuse of dominant position on behalf of key petrol and diesel retailers will also be a subject of investigation.

Protesting workers at the Babino pit, Bobov Dol mine, have been denied payment of salaries unless they sign an agreement with their employer, private NOVA TV station has announced.

Miners from Babino pit, at the Bobov Dol mines in Bulgaria, continue their protest action on Wednesday as their talks with the management and trade union have failed, the public broadcaster has said.

Nearly a hundred miners staged on Wednesday a blockade of the road linking Burgas and the resort town of Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) by the Black Sea.

A trade union official representing workers at the mine earlier told the Bulgarian National Radio the average value of salaries and layoff compensations owed to each of them was to the tune of BGN 2000 (around EUR 1023).