The President of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, participated on Tuesday in placing the first stone of the cable who will connect the city of Benasque with the Cerler Ski Resort (Huesca), Emphasizing the dedication to this infrastructure in the Pyrenees Plan. The investment adds 17 million euros and the inauguration is planned for the 2026-2027 season.
The cable It will travel 1,990 meters with a slope of 20% and can use it 2,400 people per hourso that its implementation Prevents 1,000 vehicles from increasing private at that time. At the exit of the track, in the parking lot of El Molino de Cerler, a catwalk that saves the Remascaro row, will be built and directly accessible to traces.
Ecologists oppose this project of the cable practically since it has been raised, claim that it can have disastrous effects on local biodiversityThey consistently claim that these employees must be paralyzed and have taken media to achieve it.
A completely untenable telecabine
Before the start of the construction works of a cable between Benasque and Cerler through the city of Benasque, Greenpeace and SOS Ribagorza ask their paralysis to be a harmful project for biodiversity.
Both organizations are of the opinion that the project of cable Between Benasque and Cerler it is a project that It could seriously damage species and habitats with great natural value of the Aragonese Pyrenees.
This project, whose construction work has already begun, also presents Potential problems of floods and safety, and the requirements written to be financed with the next generation of funds as intended.
Possible project damage
Candidate projects that must be financed with funds of the next generation must fulfill the DNSH principle (acronym for no meaning damage), which implies that they are not allowed to cause considerable damage. However, The damage that this project can generate are several:
- The trail of the cable It will influence the protected spaces that are included in the Natura 2000 network,A habitats of community interest, to the area of Special Conservation River and to the posts – Madaleta Natural Park.
- The project requires treesboth under the layout of the cable along the forest of the Mosquera (1200 meters long by 15 wide) and for the opening of the new network of instructions of more than 2.5 kilometers before the construction of the Cable car. Likewise they would be that Necessary more than 5 kilometers of traces for the evacuation of telecabine users via a forest that nowadays has no access. These instructions for the evacuation process are not provided in the construction project, because it also does not include an evacuation plan that it is necessary to place potential future users.
- The environmental impact statement (day) of the project shows that thisThe location of the television influences the champion zone of the demolition, endangered species, that affects your recovery plan. It also affects other endangered species such as Urogallo, Chova Piquirroja and the small horseshoe blades.
Moreover, in the project that has finally been approved, there are different infringements of the day itself, since then, among other things, Working for reducing the risk of floods that were mandatory before the construction of the telecabine did not start, The required program for environmental monitoring has not been budgeted and there is no budget and measures for the detection of copies of Avifauna injured or death due to collision.
In this way it seems impossible to evaluate and therefore to ensure that it does not cause considerable damage as soon as the project has been launched. Complete Loss crisis for biodiversity and climate changeProtecting our ecosystems is crucial for us survival.
‘We cannot state private interests by promoting predatory tourist models that endanger such important environments, Symbolic and crucial such as the Pyrenees“, Ricard Sánchez, spokesperson for the SOS Ribagorza Association, has noticed.
For that reason, the Ecologist groups demand the paralysis of the works And the revaluation of the project, so that the impact of the same is reduced and a truly viable, durable and safe alternative is available.
“Biodiversity and ecosystems of the Aragonese Pyrenees are seriously threatened by climate change, but in turn they are crucial for the survival of humans and the mitigation of effects that generates the same climate change. That is why the protection is of vital and projects such as cable Between Cerler and Benasque they do nothing but go into the problem ”, The spokeswoman for the NGO Lorea Flores has noticed.