The neighbors of Three songs and colmenar old They have said “enough” to the macroplanta of biogas projected between the two municipalities of Madrid. More than 2,000 people grouped on a citizen platform prepare to go in demonstration this Sunday, April 27. The group indicates that the installation is projected to get up in the vicinity of the Colmenareño landfill, less than 1.5 kilometers of homes and just a kilometer from an institute. On the other hand, the tricantinos denounce that their location is in a private field to less than “three kilometers” of the houses of the northern sector, which will generate “noise and bad permanent odors.”
But the discomfort not only lies in the location. The neighbors denounce the “total opacity” with which the City of Colmenar Viejo “It has been taking all the necessary steps to carry out this project”, a criticism that has intensified when it is known that the plant would process up to 75,000 tons of waste in its first phase, “much higher than that which occurs between both municipalities, which shows that waste will be brought out.”
The manifestation It will take place in Colmenar Viejo at 11:30 am. It will depart from the “Plaza de los Bulls” (Manuel Revelles Glorieta) to lead to the City Council, where members of the platform, such as the scientist Fernando Valladares, will explain the “technical, environmental and logistics deficiencies” of a project that “has never clearly explained to the neighbors and rather they have tried to hide, which derives, in our opinion, in serious omissions, in serious omissions, in serious omissions, in serious. municipal ».
The conflict has even opened a crack among the mayors of the Popular Party. The Tres Cantos councilor, Jesús Moreno, has clearly unmarked the project of his Colmenareño counterpart, Carlos Blázquez. Moreno has pointed out the need to “locate the plant elsewhere”, in line with the neighborhood claims that say they do not want this installation “neither large nor so close.”
Although the initiative is protected by the principles of the circular economy and the energy transition, the neighbors accuse the Consistory Colmenaria of hiding other motivations. «The whole project is full of irregularities and concealments that point more to obtaining rapid benefits, under European subsidies, than to a public utility logic, ”denounced a platform spokesman.
The technical reports handled by the platform point to “A potential unhealthiness in waste”. A problem, they warn, would be added to those that already generates the nearby landfill, whose unhealthiness has been denounced for years.
Also, the platform reports that, “if nobody wants to listen to us” the march will be only the first step. In addition, they plan to go to the Community of Madrid to make their demands heard, since “so far, she has not wanted to express themselves about the disagreements between the two mayors of the affected localities or has manifested about the possibility of revoking the initial authorization for the construction of the macroplante in the planned location.”