The national spokesperson for the party, Su Moreno, defended the transition towards renewable energy, but warned from Pla de Clarà that “renewable is not synonymous with fair”. She alerted that, without public and democratic planning, renewables will become a new field for speculation.
“"Energy to live and not to speculate."
Moreno stressed that the energy transition cannot repeat the errors of the traditional extractive model, based on the imposition of macro-projects, the concentration of profits in large companies, and the destruction of agricultural land and landscape. She pointed out that the plant responds to a market logic of pumping water when energy is cheap and generating it when it is expensive, a practice she called “speculative”.
The CUP activist in Berguedà, Aleix Serra, questioned the real interest of the project for the region, stating that Berguedà “only puts its body and territory up for destruction,” while the infrastructure's benefits are limited and mostly private. The party also advocated prioritizing water for drinking, irrigation, and real economic activity.
“"The high Berguedà accumulates an enormous amount of environmental impacts. We are full of corpses from the mines, the old thermal power plant, and now we will generate another installation that will end up obsolete and will only have served to speculate."
Both the CUP and the Pla de Clarà Viu platform positively assessed the consultations called in Vilada and La Nou, but insist that the results must be politically binding. They announced that they will continue to inform citizens about the project's impacts and risks.
