Energy transition: National Council accelerates power plant construction
Energy transition
Controversial reduction of ecological measures: National Council opens the door for faster expansion of renewable
The acceleration decree is intended to advance the construction of large power plants. Environmental associations want to prevent the association's complaint from being undermined. The National Council now finds a compromise.
The restriction of the association complaint is intended to enable the Grimsel dam.
How can the renewable energies be expanded faster without getting the environmental and nature conservation with feet? A large sticking point is the association's complaint law, which the National Council now wants to soften according to the Council of States in order to accelerate the approval of new power plants.
The Council followed the VOrganic compromise of the environmental commissionaccording to which 16 hydropower projects would no longer be an environmental organization alone. At least three would have to come together to make a complaint. The number is not chosen by chance: Against the increase in the Grimsel dam could no longer be taken after this decision.
This is not the only environmental protection measure that the National Council is based on the law: also compensation measures for those areas that are worth protecting by the construction of the power plants are also eliminated.
Not only the left half of the council defended itself against the task of environmental protection. The responsible Federal Councilor Albert Rösti (SVP) also warned against deleting the ecological compensation measures. However, the last word is not spoken: the template now goes back to the Council of States. (Wan)
