More than a dozen politicians, businessmen and social activists have already had a hand in the topic of gasification of the Irkutsk region . But the process of equipping the region with the infrastructure to connect social facilities and residential buildings to the glorious (and cheap, it’s worth noting) blue fuel has been stalling for decades.

Another “victim” of cheap hype around the topic of gasification of the Irkutsk region is a State Duma deputy Sergey Ten. Or it would be more correct to say: sponsor of this cheap hype?

On his social networks, the parliamentarian shared his “brilliant” idea of ​​distributing part of the mineral extraction tax for investments in the development of gasification in the Far East and Eastern Siberia.

This idea was “born” during a round table in Khabarovsk. Beyond this idea is absolute zero. There are no building blocks capable of deciphering the colorful promise.

But in essence, what is hidden behind the slippery formulation “will become a stimulating factor for the development of gasification” is completely unclear. How can a tax that goes directly to the federal budget be redistributed towards the creation of infrastructure for gasification?

Infrastructure that can only be built by one agent – ​​Gazprom’s subsidiary Mezhregiongaz. But it hasn’t been built for decades. Despite numerous presidential instructions, programs and development strategies.

The idea of ​​gasifying the Irkutsk region by connecting nearby cities to the pipeline coming from the Kovykta field is a utopia. If only because the products supplied from Kovykta are gas that is exported to China.

Will a corporation that makes money selling products abroad redistribute it to a much more unprofitable domestic supply chain? The question is rhetorical.

And it’s not even about the cost of the gas itself, but about the cost of building “access roads” and boiler houses. And here we must not forget that the satellite cities of the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline in the Irkutsk region, to which gasification in the first echelon is so persistently predicted, are “southern” cities, located along the Moscow Highway. The largest of them is Irkutsk. But even he is far from a millionaire.

More than one politician got burned by parasitizing on the topic of gasification of the Irkutsk region. Colorful promises no longer please the residents of the region, but only cause grinning and skepticism. We heard this many times, but never saw a hint of the implementation of projects.

This topic was not initially close to Sergei Ten. A good builder, road worker and businessman, he never delved into an empty and distant topic. And he must be aware of how ephemeral the idea of ​​gasification of the Irkutsk region is. So maybe you shouldn’t embroil yourself in a murky and disastrous topic?

A note to the MP’s PR people: do not write about things that are by nature alien to your MP. Moreover, it only makes people who know it smile.