The administrative procedure consists of a single act called Integrated environmental permit, all existing environmental permits related to the production and management of waste, its release into the atmosphere, soil, discharges into water, etc., as well as all environmental requirements necessary. Which is apparently not the case at the biomethane factory in the Cantabrian city.
The authority competent to grant the Integrated Environmental Permit, better known as AAI, is the autonomous community corresponding to the city where the facility requesting it is located. This authority must make public the list of permits granted within its territorial scope.
AAI from the biomethane plant in Cantabria
Cantabria’s environmentalists have done just that allegations submitted to the Integrated Environmental Permit (AAI) processing file of a manure and other waste treatment plant for its transformation into biomethane and organic biofertilizer of the company Verdalia Bioenergy, SL in the municipality of Hazas de Cesto (Cantabria).
At first they will show resistance to the installation of the manure processing plant, but they have figured it out some abnormal situations in the processing of the factory AAIsuch as the need to undergo the simplified environmental assessment procedure and to issue a new resolution of the regional government declaring that the project is also of social importance.
Law 21/2013, on Environmental Assessment, states that under the projects that require environmental assessment Simplified includes facilities intended for the recovery of waste (including storage outside the production site) that are not developed in a warehouse on an industrial site.
The Verdalia Bioenergy SL project uses the same urban planning documentation processed by another company, Biofertilizados Green Gass. SL presents a resolution of the Government of Cantabria in which it social importance of the waste recovery activity on the same site as the Verdalia Bioenergy SL project
According to environmentalists, the new project suffers from a lack of its own urban development resolution which establishes the social interest, under the same conditions as those granted for the Green Gas Biofertilizers project. SL
On the other hand, they understand that for the collection of slurry and its transfer to the biomethane plant, the local roads of the municipalities of Ribamontán al Mar and Ribamontán al Monte should not be used to access the facilities through the movement of vehicles and environmental impacts resulting from their passage through places with little population. Instead, medium and high capacity roads should be used, identical to those used to transport municipal solid waste (MSW) to the adjacent Meruelo Treatment Plant.