Eugenio Mendikote says he is aware of the importance of the industrial sector in Euskadi, although he maintains that such projects “must follow environmental criteria and cause as little harm as possible to citizens.”
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He mayor by Zierbena (Bizkaia) has reiterated its discomfort with the high-voltage project that the company Solaria wants to build as an evacuation route for its photovoltaic solar power plants in Álava.
Eugenio Mendikote, interviewed in the program ‘Boulevard’ on Radio Euskadi, assured that the council ‘shares the importance of Basque industrial sector as well as searching for renewable energy created in our country,” although he emphasizes that these projects must follow “environmental criteria” and “cause as little harm as possible to citizens.” the way forward, but not at any price”added.
Mendikote yesterday appeared together with other mayors of the PNV of the Mining Zone and Encartaciones, all involved in the project, to ask the company to reconsider the project; “a communal feeling,” as he noted.
Councilor Jeltzale explained that Zierbena already has several tension towers due to its proximity to the Port of Bilbao substation, and that this plan would add another seven, “even bigger than the current ones.” “We have the expansion of the port of Bilbao next door, and that brings good things economically, but also difficulties,” he muses.
“It’s a project hard to understand To the layman, we don’t understand that solar power plants are a 100 kilometer route“he stood on it.
Source: EITB

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