Bats are not an obstacle for the “Montagne de Tramelan” wind farm
Published: Thursday, Dec 12th 2024, 13:10
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The discovery of a colony of bats in the vicinity of one of the planned wind turbines of the "Parc éolien de la Montagne de Tramelan" in the canton of Bern has no impact on the project. The Federal Supreme Court has not accepted a request to revise its ruling on this project from 2023.
A judgment can only be revised if facts emerge that existed during the proceedings but were not known. In this case, the presence of a brown long-eared bat colony had already been confirmed in June 2022 and not two years later, as the applicant had stated. This is what the highest Swiss court wrote in a ruling published on Thursday.
The presence of bats could therefore have been brought in and taken into account in the previous procedure. However, according to the Federal Supreme Court, this does not mean that the animals do not play a role. Rather, they must be included in the bat monitoring that is carried out after the wind farm has been built.
The wind farm envisages the construction of seven wind turbines that will produce between 27 and 31 gigawatt hours of electricity per year. The project was approved in referendums in the municipalities of Tramelan and Saicourt in 2015. The Federal Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against the project in November 2023 on the main points. (Judgement 1F_13/2024 of 15.11.2024)
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