Environmental associations and power plants reach agreement on Grimsel project
Published: Friday, Jun 21st 2024, 11:00
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Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO) and the major environmental organizations have reached an agreement on the Grimsel project. Eight measures are to compensate for flooded habitats, as the organizations wrote in a joint press release.
The planned enlargement of the reservoir will cause a glacier foreland to be dammed. For this reason, associations and KWO have been looking for alternative measures, according to the press release issued on Friday.
Pro Natura, the WWF, the Foundation for Landscape Conservation, the Swiss Fishing Association, the Swiss Alpine Club, the Bernese Cantonal Fishing Association and Aqua Viva are involved in the agreement.
The raising of the Grimsel dams has a long and controversial history. In 2005, the KWO submitted a planning application for the enlargement of Lake Grimsel. The Federal Supreme Court ruled that the KWO must have the project approved in a concession procedure rather than a construction procedure. At the end of May this year, the KWO submitted a concession application to the Canton of Bern.
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