This brings us to November 7, 2023, to the open gathering of information on the wind power plant that the City Hall wants to hold in Meaka and Irimon Capital Energy. A lot of things fell in it, including two large wind-up slabs. These have been the first stones of the popular platform Meaka-Irimo, such as those put by the Lehendakari in the official works. That same week a group of citizens organised the first meeting, and since then, we have met almost every week.

Shortly afterwards, on 15 December, the project presented by the company Trekutz was published in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country. This led us to speed up, to create a dynamic that the starting team had to devise to respond to what the legal framework required. Fortunately, and unfortunately, they already had experience in other villages and valleys, and with their help – also – we presented allegations on 6 February 2024, with the signing of a total of 3,022 people.

During these months we have had five rapporteurs in the village, each from their area has explained to us the banks of these macro-projects. The truth is that we have not found many reasons to throw rockets; the shadows have appeared more often, although in most cases there was a ray of light, even if far away, to continue in this struggle.

Surely, the most important thing is to leave the young people of the village and those who come after them, Meaka and Irimo, alive and stimulating. That is the little we have left in Antzuola, after the Beasain-Durango freeway, the TAV and the high-voltage line have destroyed the entire route.

Someone may be tempted to regard the people in the groups that we are fighting against these macro-projects as NIMBY, that is to say that we do not want in ourselves because we are a little capricious and that we do not care what happens outside our area.

You're wrong, you've fallen into temptation. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that they all come from the same place and have one end. There are compelling reasons for dealing with these macro-projects, we will bring three.

Social justice: In the nightmare of the electrification of capital, here we receive the latest blows, there are territories and people exploited to get all the raw materials needed to make the devices they want to put ahead. On a small scale, urban space based on economy fiction cannot continue to plunder the countryside and accumulate profits in havens. The goal must be to ensure that all people have habitable lives.

Survival: If we do not take care – and we improve how unnatural we are – we are working in the hole at the entrance of our bodies. In the name of environmentalism, we cannot destroy the fabric of life that keeps us alive. Sustainable is not synonymous with habitable.

The limits of life: we have to move material ambition to the limits of the planet, and to that end direct all public policies, in which the care of the life of all is the axis. We need renewables, but within those limits.

Time is progressing and as the reasons for our struggle are multiplied, the deadline for responding to the allegations is getting closer: 6 August 2024. Is it by chance that the answers come in time of vacation?

As we have done in recent months, on 16 August we will return to Vitoria-Gasteiz – from 10:30 to 11:30 – in front of the headquarters of the Basque Government, to claim that Irimo wants alive, by word and by word, screaming and singing. On this occasion, like Mrs Tapia, we will invite the new advisor, Mikel Jauregi, to come to know Irimo and to listen to our reasons.

Because Antzuola does not want more destructive projects and because young people are entitled to a more livable and just future, Irimo Bizirik!