Wind energy: the TF decides in favor of the 500-meter initiative

Seven years later, the authors of the five hundred meter initiative received their case. A Bernese municipality can embody in its laws {that a} wind turbine should not be situated lower than 500 meters from dwellings. The Federal Court docket dominated in favor of an initiative that had been voted on and accepted in 2015 by the residents of Tramelan, similtaneously a wind farm venture. That is confirmed in its version of the day on Jura every day life.

Subsequently, the cantonal workplace of communal affairs and territorial group (OACOT) didn’t give its approval to the modification of the laws. The initiators then defended their case till the Federal Court docket the place they received their case.

At this stage, this doesn’t change something for the Montagne de Tramelan wind venture or for the others which have already handed the constructing allow stage. However the choice handed down on August 25 by the Federal Court docket stays no much less necessary within the eyes of Michel Fior, the president of Paysage libre BEJUNE, an affiliation which campaigns for an affordable coverage of power and improvement of the territory :

Within the opinion of Michel Fior, the promoter of the Montagne de Tramelan BKW wind venture ought to consider the choice of the TF and respect the space of 500 meters between the propellers and the dwellings:

Within the Bernese Jura, one other wind venture is being arrange, in Sonvilier. Right here once more, its promoters don’t have anything to fret about with regard to the choice of the TF. Then again, the mayor of the village, Rosemarie Jeanneret fears for the longer term:

Promoter of the Montagnes de Tramelan venture, BKW says that it takes word of the choice of the Federal Court docket. /cwi