PAN spokeswoman, Inês Sousa Real, has criticised the “green light” given to the Cercal do Alentejo Photovoltaic Plant, in Santiago do Cacém (Setúbal),.
Controversial new solar power plant plans By TPN/Lusa, in Business, Alentejo · 02-07-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
The project to install a large solar plant in the parish of Cercal do Alentejo, municipality of Santiago do Cacém (Setúbal), may imply the “artificialisation of rural areas”, warned the environmental association ,Zero, as local people sign a petition against the development.
“Zero is extremely concerned when we are facing an artificialisation of rural space for the installation of equipment for energy production,” Nuno Forner, of Zero, told Lusa news agency.
The project of this solar photovoltaic plant, that the company Cercal Power, S.A intends to develop in Cercal do Alentejo, foresees an overall investment of €164.2 million and the respective Environmental Impact Study (EIA) was in publi