The European Commission may launch an infringement procedure over
limitations on projects for producing energy from wind-energy sources, the
Bulgarian wind-energy association has warned, Sofia News Agency wrote. Last week
the Parliament adopted on first reading the amendment to the Bulgarian farmland
protection policy act, which envisions a ban of wind-energy projects on 28% of
the Bulgarian territory. There have been serious objections with various
arguments against the amendment.
According to the association, the
experience of other EU member states shows that wind-energy projects do not
endanger agriculture but rather create job positions and with the implementation
of the envisioned limitations, these job positions will be lost, a well as the
rent revenues from fields and investments.
“The amendment is good only
for the big industrialized mass producers, but it will harm the revenues of
small agriculture producers and the local land owners. It also endangers the
existing job positions in the agriculture, as well as the future job positions
at the sphere of renewable energy,” people from the association
said.