A total of 57 wind turbines, 65 stories high (about 200 meters from end to end) and visible from a distance of 25 kilometers, could flood the Central Mountain leonesa.
This possibility, which is extremely real today, has set in motion a part of the society in this area of León that has, to date, been foreign to 299 systems of this type that have been located in the province, especially in the Bierzo area.
The first flag of rejection of these projects has been raised by the Platform for the future of the Central Leonesa Mountain. Your president, Esther Domínguez Jové, recognizes the difficulty to overturn these initiatives that come from the hand of the Government and the Junta de Castilla y León but it appeals to the sentiment of the people of León to avoid another “natural catastrophe” that they already compare with the wall of the Riaño dam.
“These projects are a poisoned candy for the residents of the area. In exchange for 80,000 euros per year, the neighborhood councils are given areas of enormous ecological value and the natural wealth is laminated. We have shown that the price of goods in these areas falls by 30% and employment falls by 14%. Far from creating wealth what they contribute is general poverty in exchange for cleaning up the accounts of the neighborhood councils “, he remarks Esther Dominguez, in your case president of the neighborhood council of La Valcueva.
Four projects in process
If nobody prevents it to the area of the Central Mountain they will arrive five such projects, four of them on ‘waiting list’ for approval and one (that of El Puerto I, in Villamanín) already approved and with a single experimental wind turbine.
As a whole, all the projects will entail an investment that will exceed the 250 million euros but the reality, it is noted from the platform, is that the final job “will be punctual” and will barely reach ten workers.
Of the four parks planned for the Central Mountain its impact on the ground will be visible throughout the area. ‘Abano’, with 17 mills almost 200 meters high, will directly affect Matallana de Torío, Cármenes, Valdepiélago and Valdelugueros.
This project comes through the ministry to exceed 50 megawatts and its promoter is an investment fund, Green capital development. The final power of its mills will reach 76.5 megawatts and will be the one with the highest power when they will be installed.
From Valdorria to Cármenes
Naturgy, for its part, is committed to launching ‘La Cotada Grande’ whose mills will be implanted from Valdorria to Cármenes affecting Valdepiélago, Valdelugueros and Cármenes, recalls the platform.
As a whole, the 15 65-story mills with an electrical production of 49.95 megawatts.
The others Two parks will be built, if the Administration allows it, in the area of Pola de Gordón, La Robla and Carrocera. ‘Barrios de Gordón’, on a corresponding area of the hamlet of with the same name and of just 50 inhabitants, it is also promoted by Naturgy.
Its 12 mills they would be just above La Pola with an electrical production of 49.92 megawatts.
Finally the park ‘Elanio’ will be implemented in the Carrocera, La Pola de Gordón and La Robla area, with 54 megawatts of electricity production committed by its 12 wind turbines.
Up to 50 kilometers of road and the example of Riaño
In some of these cases, each wind farm will be accompanied by 25 kilometers of open road (more of 50 in the total of the four projects) in the middle of the mountain between six and ten meters wide with gravel to fix the path. This will be joined atUnderground electrical wiring from the mills to the substation and overhead from it to the central.
Each ‘post’ will have a height of 125 meters and each blade an extension of 72.40 until reaching 197.40 meters. As a whole, they will generate a visual impact that, according to the Platform for the future of the Central Leonesa Mountain, it will ruin natural spaces and completely submerge any possibility of creating natural spaces for tourism in its environment, in addition to damaging the natural species that coexist in those areas.
The platform insists on the need to make society and administrations aware that a province cannot be sunk even further ruining its natural wealth to obtain energy wealth. The best example, they insist, is in the same province and is Riaño.
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