2024-05-15 05:26:46
The competent authorized division of the Ministry of Setting and Vitality accepted the enchantment of the Hellenic Ornithological Society in opposition to the licensing of the “Kastri – Kamila” Wind Energy Plant (ASPIE) of the KIEFER firm throughout the ZEP (NATURA space) “Tsamanda Mountains” in Thesprotia .
With the choice of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, the Environmental Circumstances Approval Determination (EACO) of the undertaking in query, which was issued by the Decentralized Administration of Epirus – Macedonia on 3/1/2024, is cancelled. The rationale for the rejection of the AEPO is that the Particular Ecological Evaluation (SEA) examine of the ASPIE was not in accordance with the specs set by the laws for the conduct of the mandatory area work. Specifically, EOA’s personal declare is that the sector work was performed within the months of October and November (!), whereas the laws explicitly (and fairly) states that the information of hen species should be performed (not less than) in the course of the breeding season , from March to June.
“The unhappy (but additionally infuriating) factor is that on this case there was no “sightlessness” or negligence, since this specific commentary was dropped at the eye of the providers within the related detrimental opinion of OFYPEKA. It seems, subsequently, that the Directorate of Setting and Spatial Planning of Epirus of ADIDM and the Directorate of Pure Setting and Biodiversity Administration of the Ministry of the Inside, who gave a constructive opinion on the undertaking (because it seems from the AEPO itself), turned a blind eye to the carbine irregularity. And sadly this case just isn’t an exception”, says the Hellenic Ornithological Society in its announcement, talking of a seemingly small, however significantly necessary victory within the ongoing effort for the correct growth of Renewable Vitality Sources.
The Hellenic Ornithological Society factors out that, following this growth, the Decentralized Administration is now obliged to revoke the AEPO for the ASPIE “Prionia” of the identical firm and in the identical NATURA space, because it was additionally illegally licensed, with area work that they have been made in an inappropriate interval and with a detrimental opinion of OFYPEKA. “There isn’t any justification for the allow of a de facto unlawful undertaking to stay in power, inside a protected space for Europe’s rarest vulture, the griffon vulture,” he concludes.