For its part, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia has urged “a reflection on why a factory in Álava has to travel practically 100 kilometers to evacuate energy.”
Representatives of the PNV in Zona Minera and Encartaciones asked Solaria on Thursday to reconsider the route that it considers as a way to evacuate the energy produced in Álava, a high-voltage line that will pass through these municipalities and cities “which will not benefit will come from that clean energy.”
As reported by the PNV, the esplanade of the Concha mine in Gallarta was the place chosen this morning by the mayors of the PNV Iñaki Urrutia (Abanto-Zierbena), Eugenio Mendikote (Zierbena), Saulo Nebreda (Ortuella) and Juan Andrés Iragorri (Güeñes)the mayors Rakel Larruskain (Galdames) and Ángela Egia (Godexola)and the head of the jeltzale list in the Trápaga Valley, Ainhoa Santistebanto show their discomfort with a project “alien to them in design and benefits” and have announced that they will make accusations to reduce possible circumstances.
“It is difficult to understand and defend a project that, at least as far as we know now, does not entail any compensation, neither for the affected municipalities nor for the people who live there,” said Iñaki Urrutia, mayor of Abanto- Zierbena and charged with giving voice to the claim of the Jeltzal council members.
While he has indicated that the project is in its early stages and “could even decline in the future”, he has stated that it is his duty to ensure that impacts on his sites are as “least as possible”.
The Deputy of Natural Environment and Agriculture of Bizkaia, Arantza Atutxa, has explained that the Provincial Council does not yet have a report on the impact of the project on the territory of Biscay and has therefore avoided making an assessment of the issue. However, he has urged “a reflection on why a factory in Álava has to travel practically 100 kilometers to evacuate the energy.”
During the press conference after the regional government council, Atutxa expressed the opinion that “a renewable power plant should have energy as close as possible.” In this way, he believes that “the conditions that any type of infrastructure of this type can have and that travel many kilometers” make it “lose that feeling a little bit”.
For its part, the company Solaria Eguzki Sorkuntza has publicly reiterated its willingness to realize technically feasible solutions with as little impact as possible on the municipalities through which the projects’ high-voltage line runs.
In a statement, the company indicated that the high-voltage line of the Solaria projects in Álava complies with “the only technically available connection option”.
Source: EITB
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