In the so-called project Was there a dangerous element in the Windmill Act? He writes about the details, among other things: Basta Foundation.
On Tuesday, a group of MPs from the Civic Coalition and Poland 2050, represented by KO MP Krzysztof Gadowski, submitted to the Speaker of the Sejm a parliamentary bill amending laws supporting consumers of electricity, gas, heat and certain other laws .
A slip in the bill?
As we learn from the project description published on the Sejm website, the project is concerned with minimizing the increase in the impact of energy and gas prices on individual customers, public utilities and local government units, as well as introducing solutions aimed at the gradual recovery of market conditions. mechanisms to shape prices in these markets without state interference.
However, there was disturbing information in the media about other proposals included in the project. We read about it on the Basta Foundation website. Journalists from “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” Andrzej Krajewski and Tomasz Żółciak also drew attention to the case.
This is an amendment to 15 laws provided for in the project regarding the provisions governing the investment process for wind farms.
“Windmill resolutions”?
“The project introduces completely new rules for locating wind farms, including the possibility of locating wind farms on the basis of a ‘wind farm resolution’ (provisions similar to the infamous ‘lex developer’ act), i.e. contrary to the provisions of applicable local legislation also significantly reduces the required distances to residential buildings (wind turbines from 300 m in the case of multi-family houses and from 400 m in the case of single-family houses), as well as to national parks and nature reserves (the project assumes the possibility of removing wind farms from these areas in a distance of 300 meters, although the justification on page 20 mentions 500 meters)” – we read on the website fundacjabasta.pl.
Possibility of “expropriation of private individuals”?
‘In addition, the project is based on changes to the Real Estate Management Act, which will make expropriation of private individuals possible to build wind farms and other renewable energy investments, because after the project comes into effect, the construction of renewable energy investments will be a public goal. This is a serious interference with property rights and citizens’ rights.” we will find out further.
Furthermore, according to the Foundation, the law will result in no prohibitions in landscape parks and protected landscape areas; all investments in renewable energy will be able to be located in these protected areas without any obstacles.
These are not all the changes that the Basta Foundation was concerned about. You can read more details on her website. It also asks “who worked on this project and who is the real author of these proposals”, because, as the authors of the text claim, “such a project certainly could not have been created by the parliamentarians alone, especially not in such cases.” a short time”.
‘Probably the first legislative scandal’
“The announcement showed that it would be a project that would be elegant in its simplicity, but the insertions in it stink of lobbying by specific groups,” wrote Tomasz Żółciak on the X website.
“Those who say that the first legislative scandal is about to happen during the Sejm of the tenth term are right,” he added.
“The candidate for minister, Ms. Hennig-Kloska, collaborated on the lobbying wind bill. This is the climate we should have in the new government…” said Janusz Cieszyński, former PiS Minister of Digital Affairs.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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