The project to update the restoration plan to install trails asphalt and concrete production plants at the ses Planes quarry in Jesús, has again cleared the environmental assessment. The Environmental Commission of the Balearic Islands yesterday decided in favor of the environmental impact assessment of the project with a series of conditions, including the verification with a complete sonometric study that the acoustic emissions generated by the simultaneous activity of the two production plants does not exceed the limit set by the regulations and that in the event that it does not conform to the standard, the necessary measures are taken to immediately correct it.
In mid-2019, the ruling of the Balearic Islands Supreme Court of Justice (TSJB) that annulled the authorization granted in October 2015 by the General Directorate of Industry of the Govern to update the restoration plan (to incorporate the asphalt and concrete production plants), became final. The court overturned the General Directorate of Industry’s authorization due to a procedural error in the processing. Specifically, between the public information process (June 2013) and the granting of the permit, a period of two years and four months elapsed in which “relevant” information was incorporated into the file, such as an acoustic study, among other documents, to which the neighbors did not have access during the exposure phase. The ruling considered that a new public information process should have been opened. The Supreme Court did not accept the appeals of the company that manages the quarry, Hermanos Parrot, and the Govern.
It so happens that eight months earlier, the TSJB did consider the authorization of the project valid by rejecting an appeal by the Asociación de Afectados por la Cantera de ses Planes, presided by Belinda Alonso, widow of Ángel Nieto.
Environmental Commission approval
Now, after repeating the mandatory public information process with all the documents and based on a report from the Abogacía de la Comunitat Autònoma, the Balearic Environmental Commission has given the go-ahead again to the environmental impact assessment. “Our margin for action was very limited,” says the president of the environmental body of the Autonomous Community, Antoni Alorda.
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