“A moratorium, democratic planning and smaller buildings are needed”
- Hundreds of citizens made a march on Saturday morning against the solar polygons that they want to build south of the Sierra del Cil, called by the Salve El Misericordia association.
Hundreds of people congregated on the march from Cara to Muruzábal. From there, along the Camino de Santiago, they headed to Andramari de Eunate, where they ended up with a performance on photovoltaic. According to the organizers, the macro-parks that are intended to be built are not suitable projects to cope with the energy transition and can cause major damage to biodiversity, “an extraordinary impact on the landscape and the disappearance of high-output agricultural land and rural tourism”.
They claim not only what, but how: “All these constructions require democratic planning, which requires a debate that allows us to assess when, where and how renewable energies should be developed.” They say that self-consumption must be promoted, hindering the speculative practice of the current electric oligopoly: The models that will bring “decentralization of decisions, local construction and democratization of energy production” need to be deepened.
Renewable energies are needed, “but maintaining territorial balance, creating jobs in villages and counties, preserving biodiversity, agricultural and livestock resources”. To make all this viable, the Government of Navarre has again been asked for a moratorium on the planned photovoltaic and wind projects in Navarre.
The update of the Navarra Energy Plan goes unnoticed. The Government of Navarre made this public and, at the end of the period for the submission of claims, no government official has explained to us what their proposals are to the citizens.
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