Economy

The Minister of Mines and Energy, Irene Vélez, It has stated on several occasions that in order to increase the reserves and production of natural gas and oil in Colombia, the focus will be on reactivating the 32 contracts that are currently suspended and on improved recovery. By giving priority to these two fronts, there would be no need to award new contracts for exploration and production, according to the minister. However, from the Colombian Association of Oil and Gas (ACP) they assure that this would not be as viable as has been said and it would not give the…

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"Colombia is an energy power, and it has to consolidate development alternatives that are clean," say the bases of the National Development Plan (PND) presented by the government of Gustavo Petro last Monday. This is the axis by which the chapter on "Development alternatives with clean energy" begins to be governed and points out that this requires a series of social and economic changes to be able to execute it. For this, the Government proposes a just energy transition, with points such as the creation of energy communities, the promotion of generation with non-conventional renewable sources, among others. Precisely the…

Under the premise of equity, the national government established the National Development Plan, which highlights equal access to opportunities for all Colombians. For this, infrastructure plays a key role on this route, closing 'territorial and socioeconomic gaps that fragment the social fabric'. In the document, in this matter, the main pillar is to strengthen intra-urban, urban-rural and sub-regional links, to generate this productive connectivity throughout the national territory.“In the main urban agglomerations of the country there are no regional mass transportation systems. In addition, there is no specialized institutional framework for planning and management at the regional level, which allows…