Night came this Sunday without many Havanans having a gas supply twelve hours after the breakdown announced by the Cuba-Petróleo Union (Cupet). The company published a statement of a few lines reporting a failure in the switch of the compressor system of the Puerto Escondido plant, in Mayabeque, which supplies gas to Havana that occurred at 12:10. The plant belongs to Energas, a mixed company managed by the Canadian company Sherritt and the Cuban state company Cupet
“The affectation causes that only 40% is received in the manufactured gas production plants, so that, if it is not solved in the early hours of the morning, a partial or total affectation of the service to customers could occur,” added the note.
The failure also affected the generation of electricity at the Boca de Jaruco Power Plant, causing a deficit of 200 MW, to which was added another failure in block 6 of the Máximo Gómez Báez de Mariel Thermoelectric Plant, which stopped contributing another 95 MW, so more blackouts were expected in peak hours.
Those affected did not take long to complain through social networks after having been left without being able to cook all day.
“Let dawn break and NOTHING works,” wrote a Cubadebate reader on Facebook. “It is preferable once and for all to endure repetition until exhaustion
“Let dawn break and NOTHING work,” wrote a Cubadebate reader on Facebook. “It is preferable once and for all to endure the repetition, until exhaustion, of the effort, over effort, the visits of such and such a pretty and rosy shirt official and his Temporary Working Group meetings and his analyzes and strategies. And again the efforts and the ‘creative resistance.'”
Most of the reactions reported the fed up situation of the population, tired of not having fuel, electricity and, now, gas. “Sell the country now, we are going to die,” wrote another user.
Part of the gas treated at the Boca de Jaruco and Puerto Escondido plants is sent to Havana to cook food for around 280,000 families, according to Edel Andrés Alfaro Pérez, economic manager of Energas recently.
At the beginning of this year, a pipeline break caused a leak and left part of the Cuban capital without service. The residents of Puerto Escondido denounced 14ymedio this March the situation in which they live because of Energas. In the locality, the leaks are constant and the contamination becomes visible in the very vegetation of the place that is ceasing to be.
“Until a few years ago, one would say the name of this town and what came to mind were natural beauties, the sea and fun, but Cupet has taken part of that away from us. The stench of oil in the air is constant,” Dayamí said. fictitious name of the neighbor.
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