THE MUNICIPAL BOARD OF SFAKIA DECIDED:
DECISION NUMBER 89/2012
1. We join forces with the municipalities (Kantanou-Selino, Ierapetra, Archanes-Asteroussia, Anogion etc.), their collective organizations and the thousands of Cretan citizens, who oppose to the pharaonic plans of "TERNA ENERGY SA" and "ELICA GROUP", to install across the island, as part of the Fast-Track program, giant wind turbines of 2.000 MW total power. Accordingly, we proceed in filling an appeal together with the "Pan Cretan Net Against Industrial RES", through the Economic Committee of our municipality, for the following reasons:
a) There is no regional planning throughout the island, including our area, except from arbitrary allotment plans for installing the turbines. Also, no-one has asked for the consensus of the local communities,
b) the planned investment encroaches on ownerships and ancestral properties at will, both municipal and private, whose rights we do not divest, and
c) it will irreversibly change the productive character of the island and its environmental balance.
2. In collaboration with an academic institution, the Municipality of Sfakia will immediately start preparing a technically and financially complete proposal for the placement of a limited number (10-15) of small wind turbines (0.80 MW) in the communal area of Kallikrates and Askifou after the authorization of an open community assembly, with the following aims:
a) none of our residents will need to pay for electricity, neither for home or business use,
b) join the existing network without the need for high voltage pylons,
c) the possibility of obtaining revenue from distributing the power produced through the PPC network in adjacent areas,
d) our natural environment, our agricultural production and our civil inheritance are maintained and protected.
The Municipality will necessarily be a co-owner, at a proportion of 50% minimum and will also attempt to acquire the necessary funds by loan, for the investment and use, in the above described process.
3. We state to all interested parties that despite the difficult financial times we are going through, and which were brought on us by the memorandums imposed by the troika of lenders, WE WILL NOT ALLOW to anyone to step on the tops of our mountains in 2012 with their money, allowing what the ancestors of our current blackmailers didn’t manage to do in 1940-45 with their guns.
DECISION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SFAKIA FOR THE IRES IN CRETE
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