The Government finally changed the name of the Gasduct Nestor Kirchner as the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni had announced over the weekend. According to resolution 326/2024 of the Secretary of Energy, the gas pipeline will be renamed Expert Francisco Pascasio Moreno.
In the recitals of the resolution that bears the signature of the Secretary of Energy María del Carmen Tettamanti clarifies that “the naming and/or identification of works of public infrastructure, historical monuments, buildings and the like should in no case respond to political interests, taking into account that the purpose and cultural meaning of these would be distorted, confusing what is public with the partisan.”
According to the official text, this action “would make it lose the neutrality inherent to these assets, excluding those who do not share the same political outlook and conspiring against the objective of constituting the national union, indicated in the Preamble of the National Constitution.”
On Saturday the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorniconfirmed that the ”President Néstor Kirchner Gasduct” changed its name. From now on, it will be called ”Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno Gas Pipeline”in honor of the Argentine explorer, scientist and politician.
The mega pipeline project had its first stage inaugurated on July 9, 2023in an event led by the then President of the Nation, Alberto Fernandez; Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Sergio Massa. First of all, the gas pipeline extends through 573kmfrom the town ofTrayen in Neuquén to the Buenos Aires city of Salliqueló; while the second stage continues to the city of San Jerónimo Sud, Province of Santa Fewith a distance of 524 km.
This second tranche requires an investment of 2,554 million dollars, which is projected to be financed through private investment and is expected to be completed in 2026.
The project to modify the name of the gas pipeline had already been promoted by La Libertad Avanza in July, when the deputy Lorena Villaverde proposed that it be called the “Liberty Gasduct”. In any case, at that time, the initiative did not prosper.
”The ‘President Néstor Kirchner Gasduct’ changes its name: from now on it will now be called ‘Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno Gasduct’. End”Adorni wrote on his social networks.
Who was Francisco Pascasio Moreno
Born in the city of Buenos Aires in 1852, Francisco Josue Pascasio Moreno He belonged to a family linked to commerce, finance and politics. With the soul of an explorer, during the 1870s he made several trips through the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, Catamarca and Patagoniain which he collected objects to display to family and friends in a personal museum.
He later donated his collection to form the Anthropological and Archaeological Museum of the province of Buenos Airesand, after a stay in Europe, he promoted the creation of a general museum in the city of Buenos Aires, where unfortunately it was not successful. However, he did not stop and continued with his explorations, which saw him pass through Cuyo and Chile, among others.
There, he expanded his archaeological collection and in 1884 he had the green light from the Buenos Aires authorities to form his long-awaited project. Thus, in 1896, he was appointed Expert, representative of Argentina in the boundary dispute with Chile, making the Museum’s services available to the national government. There, he led commissions of topographical engineers and traveling naturalists in the field who explored all the disputed regions that extended along the Andes Mountains.
He died in the city of Buenos Aires, on November 22, 1919, and his remains were transferred to Centinela Island, located in Lake Nahuel Huapi.
Source: Ambito
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