As with all the wind projects that are appearing here and there as mushrooms, we have little information about the huge infrastructure that the multinationals Repsol and Endesa want to make in the Urumea Mountains. Almost nothing is public, and in the labyrinth of bureaucratic procedures of the administrations, one finds his head lost in the mist. But that doesn’t mean companies aren’t working.

These days we have learned that Repsol has filed an appeal with the Government’s Industry Department against another of Endesa’s projects; in the response sent to Ander Goikoetxea, a member of parliament from EH Bila, the councilor Mikel Jauregi has confirmed to him that they are “being studied and solved”. The two multinationals compete to industrialize with renewables the mountainous landscape as rich as the one between Rama and Mandoegi. According to El Diario Vasco, Repsol attributes the “fraud” to Endesa, who has divided the project into five parts to gain access to the Hernani electricity substation. How many of these have they done to each other? At least make it clear what's at stake.

What they want to do in the Urumea Mountains would be the largest wind power plant in the Basque Country. We have learned this again indirectly from the documentation sent by the Government of Navarre to the Municipality of Arano for archaeological surveys. Repsol plans to build 15 large-scale wind turbines, a 28-kilometer, six-metre track, and a 21-kilometer evacuation line with 68 electric towers in the natural area. In the meantime, the administration is also at work. In the latest version of the Sectorial Territorial Plan for Renewables, the reception capacity of the Rama and the surrounding mountains has gone from “low” to “medium”, overnight.

They say they are pure energies, but at night they make it as difficult to know anything about them as to find the black sheep. And as Francisco Vaquero, from the documentary Vidas irrenovables, said in LA LUZ, “the lack of transparency that exists on the part of companies and administrations generates conflicts in the localities”. The citizens of Arano, Hozueta and Hernani have launched the platform Montes Vivos de Urumea: the next presentation in San Sebastian on February 27.