The deadline ended this Tuesday public consultation of the proposal of the decree for the identification of ‘Renewable Acceleration Zones (ZAR) in Canaria’, A text against which various environmental associations of the islands have claimed.
Projects aimed at promoting the innovative and knowledge value chain will be subsidized. The essential equipment and component object of subsidy are framed in the following action lines:
- Electric storage: production and assembly of batteries, battery cells and “battery packs”. The batteries that have the main objective are their use for Electric mobility.
- Photovoltaic solar energy: Manufacture and assembly of solar panels.
- Wind energy: Manufacture and assembly of wind turbines.
- Heat pumps: Manufacture and assembly of heat pump.
- Renewable hydrogen: Manufacture and assembly of electrolyzers.
Dress up slowly, I am in a hurry
To Juiciodaniel González, from the Tamaranae Collective, The implementation of renewable energies in the archipelago is “chaotic”and this New StandardThat It strives.
One of the problems is that «So far there is a free bar for large companies to install wind polletic winding parks) And it is, emphasize, «because most projects are approved under the figure of the general interest and although the island governments or services of the Canary Islands are unfavorable, with that figure the regulations do not matter and ultimately approve and ultimately approve and approve them».
Various environmental and individual groups choose the chaotic use of renewable energies in the archipelago
At the initiative of Tamaranae Collective of He has developed a campaign of accusations for the earlier public consultations for the proposal for the identification decision of Renewable Gears (TSAR) in the Canary Islands. In this campaign it is supported by different groups of the islands, including Turcón and the Ben Masec Federation – ecologists in action.
What do we know about the ‘text’ of the petition:
We ask for the harmonization of the development of renewable energies with the preservation of biodiversity, prioritizing savings, efficiency and production in production in self -consumption With citizen participation, and that the occupation of new country is limited to the areas of lower sensitivity to natural and cultural heritage.
To do this, you must:
- Conclude the energy planning of the islands and the environmental evaluation thereof. Although this does not happen, the Government of the Canary Islands must ensure that the new projects that have been approved do not imply the risk of biodiversity, and that be astonishment about what there are doubts about their viability of the environment.
- Give priority to energy saving and efficiency, as well as impulse for self -consumption facilities.
- Launch an independent environmental monitoring mechanism of wind and photovoltaic parks.
- Use the best technology available to reduce fauna collisions they are produced in wind facilities and that they are launched Stop stop protocols for wind turbines when significant mortality is detected.
- Take care of the technical and legal authorities of the government of the Canary Islands and the island councils of sufficient human budgets and resources for sufficient management of renewable energy.
- Organizations that want to join the Manifesto and publicly appear in the list of promoters can contact [email protected] / Updated: [email protected].
Weld Environmental organizations turn the uncontrolled implementation of energy macrop projects on the basis of irreversible damage to territory, biodiversity and the populationWithout sufficient planning or guarantees for sustainability.
Destruction of the territory and threat to biodiversity
The signing groups warn that the implementation of large wind and photovoltaic infrastructures breaks down essential habitats for countless types of flora and faunaMany of them threaten to die out.
Valuable spaces such as tababales and cardonal” Priority areas for endangered Avifauna and Semi desert environments of maximum ecological value are sacrificed for projects that benefit large business groupsWithout attending the cumulative impact on the environment.
“It is not -inadmissible to continue to promote an energy model based on speculation and private benefit, while the effects on protected species are ignored and the environmental regulations are violated,” combines the representatives of the groups.
Loss of agricultural land and contempt for food sovereignty
These groups also indicate that the Uncontrolled expansion of renewable energy assumes the loss of protected rustic soilIn contrast to food safety and security strategies. «The Government of the Canary Islands is unprotected the country by statements of general interest that benefits private companies, without evaluating the impact on the territory or the local population“, They confirm.
Lack of planning and shortcomings in environmental evaluation
They criticize that the implementation of renewable energy sources in the Canary Islands is carried out without energy planning in the long term and with insufficient environmental evaluations. In the case of photovoltaic parks, companies fragment projects to prevent environmental evaluation, while the technical reports of the wind farms warn serious conditions of protected species and natural spaces are ignored.
«Environmental legislation or European directives that force the cumulative impact of these projects are not fulfilled. This lack of control condemns the canary biodiversity to an irreversible collapse«, Ecologist organizations warn.
Impact on the health of the population
In addition to environmental damage, they pay the serious damage that this infrastructure causes local communities. The dust in suspension, the sound of the wind turbines and the shadow effect of the facilities influence the health and quality of life of the neighborsWithout being compensated or allowed to participate in decision -making.
Requirements for a transition from a fair energy
The groups REclala“ give priority to the installation of renewable energy sources in undertaked spaces such as roofs, parking and existing infrastructure. Also demand These protected spaces, agricultural areas and priority areas for biodiversity are excluded.
«We do not oppose renewable energy sources, but we demand that its development is fair, sustainable and democratic. We cannot allow the fight against climate change an excuse to continue to destroy our territory«They conclude The signing groups.