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A few days ago the press echoed the announcement made by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service which submits to public information the Environmental Impact Study and application for Prior Administrative Authorization of a set of wind and photovoltaic parks in Zaragoza and Teruel and the associated evacuation infrastructure to connect to the Begues substation (Barcelona), which involves passing a high voltage line through different regions of Tarragona.
The College of Technical Engineers of Tarragona has always been committed to alternative energies, in order to alleviate climate change in which we are already. But at the same time, we want respect for our Territory, either landscape or to avoid magnetic atmospheres.
The news has surprised us, as it comes when some time ago we demanded an urgent arrangement of the installation of wind and photovoltaic parks, to be respectful both with the territory and with what those who live there want.
We are aware that some City Councils are generating ordinances for the implementation of these parks and their evacuation infrastructures. We are aware that the Partial Territorial Plans contemplated some infrastructure corridors; that we think they must have been the right place for their passage, but that if they were not, it represents that they did not contemplate this possibility.
Although the announcement complies with Law 24/2013, and Royal Decree 1955/2000, it is difficult to understand that the Territorial Plans do not contemplate the layout of infrastructures of this magnitude; and more when the Law of Urbanism, forces to urbanistic procedures for the construction of a line of half tension. It is difficult for the citizen to understand, that it is not possible to build a house on a rustic property and that after a few months that property is crossed by a very high voltage line, with all the corresponding permits.
We agree with the planning of the territory; we agree with the need for the implementation of alternative energies; but we do not agree in structuring a territory, without the approval of its people.
We reiterate our complaint that Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre have become the energy lung of Barcelona but now, in addition, they want to consider us "infrastructure corridor" of other communities. Therefore, we show our disagreement with the layout of this new High Voltage line.
We trust that the Departments of the Generalitat involved will properly manage the issues raised; but also, that in a negative case, the urban planning of Catalonia is rethought, since it cannot be that the harmed ones are always the citizens of the Territory. Anton Escarré Dean of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona.
Anton Escarré
Dean of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona