In December last year, the Danish Giant Copenhagen met Infrastructure Partners (CIP) in Teruel with the Mayors of the municipalities of the El Maestrazgo regionwho have formed the High Wind Association, with the aim of creating a work table that guarantees the integration of the Master Cluster project within the Turolense territory.
This consists of a project of huge dimensions that aims to build 20 wind farms, which in total the from the province of Teruel.
Nowadays, a group of environmental organizations have warned that although they consider that the transition to renewable energy sources is urgent, because we have to stop the negative impact that fossil fuels have on climate, nature and people, A disorderly and excessively centralized energy developmentThat is what the master cluster could be, it would be completely counterproductive.
Master’s Wind Cluster is incompatible with biodiversity
A group of environmental organizations comes together to convey their opposition against the Wind Cluster project of the Master and at the same time defending an implementation of renewable energy sources that are compatible with the territory. Las Organizaciones Mercionadas Se Unen Para Firmar Un Manifest themselves in favor of biodiversity and against the master cluster.
Because of the effects that fossil fuels generate on climate, nature and people, environmental organizations are urgently supporting the transition to renewable energy sources. However, an implementation disorderly and excessively centralized renewable energies It produces important local effects that can and must be avoided.
The master’s wind cluster is A large project for electricity generationWhose facilities are expanded by the Turolense regions of the teacher and Gúdar-Javalambre and whose evacuation lines by the high teacher from Castellón to the French electric station in Morella Reizen.
This installation Threats the preservation of biodiversity directly When it is in places with natural protection figures, or in areas that are very close to them, and with a high presence of species of birds collected in the catalogs of endangered species. The project reflects how, even today, there are renewable energy projects that are projected and developed in areas with high environmental and/or social sensitivity in our country.
Almost all municipal conditions on which the parks are projected, as well as a considerable number of wind factories that compile them are found Located or surrounded by areas with maximum environmental sensitivity, Red Natura 2000 and/or protected natural spaces. In particular, the circumstances of 8 spaces of the Natura 2000 network are identified (3 areas with special protection for birds, 3 areas of special preservation and 2 places of community interest).
Because it is an area that includes different areas with high environmental sensitivity, and when there are arguments and sufficient suspicions that the project could lead to serious local and cumulative effects, signing organizations are of the opinion that the application of the principle of caution. They also claim that the priority should be in protected areas The preservation and restoration of nature, Because there is sufficient potential outside them to provide all energy demand with renewable energy sources.
In that sense, the manifesto signed by environmental organizations compliance with the law and participation in environmental information recognized by the Aarhus agreement and an appeal to the possibility of reviewing the cluster -master project to implement it on a precautionary measure to suspend, on the basis of Article 191 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union. Likewise, organizations ask for this assessment of the violation of the European guidelines related to the preservation of habitats and species.
Finally, environmental organizations are on the need to carry out binding territorial planning that excludes the development of renewable energy in areas with the greatest environmental sensitivityAs well as prioritizing the installation in areas of Anthropized Land (among other things: ports, public infrastructure, roads, parking spaces, industrial polygons or landfill) and/or industrial country, urban, urbanizable, affected and without particularly relevant environmental values.