The City Council and neighbors want to avoid the installation of a power line in the protected area of Es Fornàs, between San Antonio and Ibiza
A few months ago the news leapt: A new project of Red Eléctrica Española he threatened alter the landscape and the environment of the island. The company plans to install a high voltage line of about ten kilometers that, according to the plans, will cross the protected area of is Fornàs, included between San Antonio and Ibiza.
If approved, a total of 32 towers up to 60 meters high will happen throughout this zone declared Natural Area of Special Interest and Place of Community Interest (LIC) causing an unparalleled visual and environmental impact.
El project is in public exhibition until the middle of this month of September so that they can to submit the allegations relevant, something that will the Consell of Ibiza through a report that has commissioned a private consultancy.
Image of UntaltoniThe neighbors were the first to rise against the project when considering it, in addition to a offense to the landscapeSomething unnecessary. One of the biggest fears that emerges from its possible approval is that its construction will open the door to others of the same type.
La solution proposed by the neighborhood associations is that of bury the laying ordirectly discard it.
A "serious danger" for the environment
Not only Consell and neighbors have opposed this new work but all the councils of the island have requested their modification for considering it exaggerated or unnecessary.
Own Sant Antoni consistory has called it "serious danger" for flora, fauna and landscape the execution of the plans of Red Eléctrica Española and has requested a "broad social mobilization" to avoid its approval. Also, from the web page of the city council can be download a claim model created by the Association of Neighbors of es Fornàs which, after being completed, must be submitted to the registry, where they will be in charge of processing it.
The environmental group Friends of the Earth also pronounced counter of the installation of this airline claiming that Fornàs and Benimussa are natural landscapes and that these structures cause great social and environmental impacts. In addition, they maintain that you can not destroy the landscape to achieve the increase in electricity demand that occurs in Ibiza only for a few weeks summer.
If three years ago the citizen mobilization managed to stop the threat of oil rigs on the island, Ibiza again needs the collaboration of its inhabitants today to try to paralyze this project that will irreversibly modify a natural landscape full of value.
