US EditionEU’s top court rules in favour of wind farm builders in Spain’s Galicia
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EU top court bars green groups from blocking Spanish wind farms
Galicia has struggled to keep up with the rest of Spain in expanding wind power. “The cost of the structural paralysis of an entire sector for more than three years has caused enormous damage,” said industry lobby AEE.
EU’s top court rules in favour of wind farm builders in Spain’s Galicia
MADRID (Reuters) -The European Court of Justice ruled on Friday the rights to public consultation were not violated in a dispute brought by environmental groups over the construction of wind farms in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. Developers of wind parks in the region, regional authorities and rural communities opposing the projects eagerly awaited the ruling. The decision affects dozens of wind projects, worth billions of euros in…
The EU Court of Justice validates the time limits used by Spanish public administrations, including the Xunta, to process environmental assessments of all types of projects with an impact on the territory, including wind farms. It does so in a judgment replying to a question referred by the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG), which wanted the European Court to clarify whether it is correct that the Xunta is subjecting dozens of wind far…
The Socialist spokesman for Enerxía of the Galician Parliament, Patricia Iglesias, points out that the sentence "does not unblock parks paralyzed for environmental reasons", for which she is responsible for the Xunta, which "has been processing with a 1997 plan for 16 years"
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