Former Minister Juan José Aranguren responded to Alberto Fernández criticism of the energy heritage

Former minister Juan José Aranguren responded to Alberto Fernández, who pointed out that gas production was declining during Mauricio Macri's administration . What the President said is not correct said the former official when speaking with Terapia de noticias on LN +, and explained that in the four years of the previous government this production was increased by 17 million cubic meters. They brought him wrong information.

In a ceremony in Loma Campana, the nerve center of Vaca Muerta,Fernandez unveiled a new stimulus plan for gas extraction and questioned the inheritance received. Four very difficult years have passed in Argentina, where the metaphor of forgetfulness seems to have been lived. Everyone forgot about the people and paid for themselves. stark increases in rates, while gas production declined. We are going to correct things. We are going to be the Argentina we deserve.

In an interview with the LN + program, the former Energy Minister quoted former Supreme Court Judge Carlos Fayt, who had said, the facts are sacred but the comment is free. And he elaborated when the President talks about the fact that there were steep rise in tariffs it is an opinion but when he talks about the decline in oil production it is a fact. The facts are sacred and what the President said is not correct.

On this point, Aranguren explained that the daily average of natural gas production in 2015, the year in which Cristina Kirchner's government ended, was 117 million cubic meters and that in 2019, when Mauricio Macri's term ended. It was 135.6 million cubic meters, which is equivalent to 15% more. And he continued in months like July or August of last year we had productions that had not been seen since 2008, so the production of natural gas was not declining, but was increasing due to the energy policies implemented by the Macri administration.

For the former official now a new Gas Plan is being implemented which is necessary to ensure that we will have gas next winter but the most relevant variable for that to happen is to regain confidence, it is not enough with a Plan Gas if you don't generate certainties. And he added that the entire sector is waiting for this program to be implemented to recover the investment and production growth process that as he pointed out began in 2016.