A construction of wind farm in Borzhava was agreed contrary to the comments of environmentalists
The company Atlas Volovets Energy LLC has received a license to build a wind farm on the Borzhava subalpine meadow in the Carpathians. The Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Zakarpattia Regional Administration has prepared an environmental impact assessment.
The Borzhavsky project envisages the construction of 34 wind generators with a total capacity of 120 MW in the territory of five village councils in the Volovetsky and Svalyavsky districts of the Zakarpattia region. It is planned to build an electrical substation of the 35/110 kW VES Volovets, three distribution points and an underground power line with voltage of 35 kW and 110 kW.
Environmentalists are against the construction of the wind farm in Borzhava, because this area is the habitat of rare Red Book species of plants and animals, has the status of an international conservation area, is a part of the Emerald Network and is protected by the Bern Convention on the Protection of Wildlife and Natural Fauna in Europe.
Because of the construction of the station, part of the vegetation cover will be destroyed, the relief of the territory and the course of natural processes will be damaged.
It was reported earlier that residents of the village in Zakarpattia refused to build a wind farm. During the hearings, residents claimed that they were familiarized for the first time with the real scale of construction and the potential negative impact of the wind farm on the environment. Independent experts learned about the low quality of the report (environmental impact assessment) and the lack of data in it to give a conclusion on the acceptability or inadmissibility of the planned activity.
Source: elektrovesti
Tags: renewable energy, wind energy, electricity
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