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Spain: The Platform South of Cantabria believes Plenercan contributes to "corruption and insecurity"

This was noticed in a statement that they consider the document adopted last Friday the Governing Council "by Night, treachery and last minute rush" and who have learned "as usual" by the media, is an "illegal pastiche" last Plenercan. "It's the same quagmire of illegal and legal uncertainty forever," say from the platform.  

In this sense, critical that has changed "substantially" initially submitted for public information, so that the Plan calls for a "comprehensive" new processing and "from the beginning".   

Moreover, they indicate that the new energy planning is based on the Law of the energy sector, not in the economic measures for the economic sustainability of the electricity system, while "fails" the Order of the Ministry of Industry required to leave the 2012-2020 planning and scenario adapted to the current crisis and falling energy demand.   

Similarly, from Platform said the new Plenercan violates the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, to the point-remember-that the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament called on a proposal from this group to the European Commission to investigate the conduct of the law and wind Plenercan.

"Participation is not a joke"

"Political Office and banks understand participation as a joke and not a guarantee of citizens' rights to make decisions on environmental issues, to protect the right to live in the proper environment for health and the welfare of all and to strengthen democracy in the region, "argue about.   

So, this remark that "participation is not to present arguments to the case is that neither", but is that the local people "involved" in the preparation of plans, to "decide between all the development model."  

After pointing out that support for renewable energy is held in "dark private and government interests, political groups, trade unions and non-governmental" Platform judgment " from hydropower projects is null Franco administrative tradition of integrating the population into energy decisions. "  

This add-kingdom-"authoritarian" model of territorial planning and the "pressure of the wind lobby / banks to reduce paperwork social and political participation "makes" the population drifts of land management. "

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