THE judicial paralysis authorizations for wind farms throughout Galicia, with 70 of them suspended and 254 legal proceedings in progress, was at the center of the presentation of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Ángeles Vázquez, during the technical forum held this Friday in San Jacques de Compostela. A damage, he warned, which does not exclusively affect the Community, since according to the position of the European Court, the paralysis could extend to other regions of Spain and to the member countries of the Union , warned Vázquez, which would endanger compliance with the European climate pact.
“Spain will not respect the European pact if Galicia does not do so,” said the minister, who advocates continuing to work to unblock the situation with measures such as administrative simplification or holding of forums like this one, in which José Luis Blanco, president of the European Wind Energy Association, also participates; Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope; Paula Rey García, from the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission; and legal experts.
“Why are we the only autonomous community experiencing this situation? “Why, in more than 11 years that the national law on environmental assessment has been in force, has no Spanish court expressed doubts about the procedure?”, added Vázquez, who accused “the avalanche” of suspensions to block the development of wind energy, in which Galicia is no longer the autonomous community at the forefrontbut fourth behind Aragon, Castilla y León and Castilla La Mancha.
Despite this, the councilor recalled that the Galician community today produces 10.25% of total renewable energy nationallyof which practically half (49%) comes from wind farms that continue to operate, making a total of 190. “And the desire of Galicia, the desire of the Government, the desire of the Ministry of the Environment “is that the European Court decide as quickly as possible on this harmful issue,” added Vázquez.
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