US EditionThis Is How the Corrupt Plot of Renewables Operated: Hidden Bites in Two Opaque Societies to Grease Spain’s Largest Wind Project
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Environmental groups, diverse parties and other organizations presented dozens of denunciations against the Wind Project Cluster Maestrazgo, in Teruel, finally composed of 20 parks and a total of 125 wind turbines. The initiative, promoted by the Aragonese company Forestia, generated from the first moment a great controversy for the fear of a convulsive transformation of the landscape of this Turolense region.Continue reading...
The arrests of the president of Forestia and an ex-minister of Pedro Sánchez have led the popular to act.
The Forestia case splashes the solar plant TAGUS in the ZEPA of Alcántara. One of the most sensitive spaces of the Natura 2000 Network in Extremadura. The arrest of the former sub-director general of Quality and Environmental Assessment of the MITECO, Eugenio Domínguez, places under a new judicial magnifying glass the declaration of favorable environmental impact issued in 2023 for a planned installation in territory of high ecological value.The…
Many environmental groups and political formations such as Teruel Hay did not get into their heads how it was possible that certain wind and solar parks — whose authorization depended on both the central government and Aragonese — would achieve environmental approval in their province despite the environmental impact they were going to generate. Specifically, they had in their sights the largest wind project in the country, promoted by the compa…
The last police operation has led to the arrest of a ministerial office named in 2017, when the people ruledThe judicial bandage facing Forestia: a dozen judicial cases for renewable projects throughout Aragon The bandage of cases that affect the company zaragozana Forestalia, and that gave rise to a police macrooperation last Tuesday, has ended up splashing many regional and state administrations. A prominent protagonist has been the central go…
A new procedural error by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado of Madrid's Court of Instruction Number 41 has once again jeopardized an investigation into alleged irregularities at a mega solar park in Cáceres, specifically related to the environmental permits obtained for Iberdrola's Tagus solar plant in the municipality of Alcántara. The case, which focuses on former high-ranking official Eugenio Domínguez of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, was a…
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