The expansion of wind and photovoltaic macropoles and the new high-voltage projects continue in Navarra with the help of large electricity companies and with the cooperation of the Government of Navarra. Now, the two wind macropolymers that you want to deploy in Bortziriak and Malerreka, 50 MW each. The company promoting this project is Zelena Renewable, S.L., with fiscal address in Madrid. To this end, appropriate steps are being taken to obtain the electricity grid connection rights and to set up a bond worth several million euros.

The Subai Foundation recalls that these projects threaten biodiversity and do not correspond to "democratic planning to meet our needs". "Thousands of Navarros and Navarre, many of them organized on platforms, which with mobilizations and allegations have demanded a new energy model and a profound change in the current model of predatory production and consumption," says the Foundation.

Green energy?

Subai questions the production model currently being developed. "The balance of this corporate colonization of supposedly renewable projects cannot be more painful. It has not brought greater sovereignty and energy self-sufficiency to Navarre, as production and marketing decisions are in the hands of energy multinationals. It has not reduced the price of electricity by hitting the pockets of the workers and of the majority of the population and burdening the profits of oligopolies. In recent years it has not resulted in a reduction in greenhouse pollutant emissions, as recognised by the Navarre Energy Plan for 2030. It has not generated alternatives to developmentalist dynamics (high-speed train, macro-farms, private vehicle promotion, protection of wild extractive activity such as Mina Muga and Magna Erdizen). Finally, it has not boosted the resilience of the territory because it is causing the loss of farmland and an unbearable pressure on biodiversity".

Subai recalls that the development of these projects is taking place in a special context. "We are in the context of an economic war led by the United States and its allies to continue to maintain a hegemonic position in controlling energy and mineral resources. As a result, measures are being taken that have little to do with the ecological and social crisis we are experiencing," and criticises that they sell as green energy highly polluting and dangerous technologies such as fracking, nuclear energy, gas… and to carry out these projects, Next Generation funds are being used to finance oil, energy and automotive multinationals. Also to encourage this kind of wind macropolymers.

Criticism of public administration

Subai complains that the Navarre institutions are participating in this dynamic and that both the government and the political parties are approving regulations, plans and decrees "far from rational planning to reduce unnecessary energy and material consumption".

"We have no reason to face unnecessary political and economic decisions in the face of the global crisis (ecological, social, economic, cultural) and to denounce, before late, the false exits that put us on the verge of the abyss", warns Subai. "To seek benefits at the expense of the majority impoverishment; economic war to control resources; denial of social sovereignty to plan, manage and control energy needs; maintenance of oligopoly power; destruction of territory and of local agricultural activity; loss of biodiversity without stumbling or not respecting the biological limits of the planet. Faced with this, we only have to continue working and organizing," said the Foundation.