The ‘Lurraren Defendant, Euskal Herria Bizirik’ initiative, which involves residents, associations and town halls, registered the allegations on Thursday and has ensured that the high number of accusations shows the “wide societal response” to this document.
The initiative ‘Lurraren defenders, Euskal Herria Bizirik’ registered this Thursday 4000 allegations against the Sectoral Territorial Plan (PTS) for renewable energy, asking the Basque government to reject it and demand the cessation of projects for wind power plants and large solar parks in progress.
This platform includes neighbours, associations and town halls who believe that the PTS ignores relevant aspects related to environmental impacts and that it conflicts with the objectives set out in the Territory Planning Guidelines, municipal planning and regional PTP.
In a note, he made sure that the high number of allegations shows the “broad societal response” to this document, which is summed up in the request for resignation, because the model it proposes is “the interests of large energy companies and investment funds at the cost of causing significant territorial, social and environmental impacts”.
The allegations state that this plan “sacrifice the territory” and it warns that the reports issued by the concerned administrations in the preliminary consultation phase have not been made public, as well as that there is an “insufficient definition” of the locations and “deficient” cartographic information.
These issues, in the opinion of this platform, “completely invalidate the processing of this plan” because they are land reserves that are “intended to be imposed on the municipalities without technical support or adequate justification”.
The allegations also highlight that the PTS is “incompatible” with regulations for the protection of natural spaces and wild species and with the conservation of biodiversity and ecological corridors.
The platform rejects centralized energy models, betting on models based on distributed generation with renewables local self-consumptionand defends measures to reduce energy consumption.
Source: EITB
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