However, Dalia Grybauskaitė would not speculate now how the current government might act.
„Neither I, the president, alone will push the nuclear facility project, nor should it be done by any particular party since such projects are for a period covering the tenure of three or four governments. All political forces have to decide on where Lithuania will be going. Whether it will go back to the East in exchange for slightly cheaper electricity today and for full political and economic dependence tomorrow? We shall take this decision all together, including the population. Not just politicians, all of us,” she said on TV programme Teisė Žinoti (Right to Know) on Lithuania’s national television (LRT) on Wednesday night.
Lithuania would have to buy electricity from other sources if it did not have nuclear energy, Grybauskaitė said.
“Economic or energy independence results from many things, including alternative energy, energy grids, a liquefied natural gas terminal, and, without any doubt, we can already see now that we will have a big gap and will have to buy electricity somewhere if we don’t have nuclear energy,” Grybauskaitė said.
Alternative energy involved significant costs and was only affordable for rich countries, she added.
