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They require the City Council that the Cartagena Urban Planning Plan contemplates specific land reserves for these power lines away from residential areas
Ecologists in Action have addressed the General Directorate of Energy and Industrial and Mining Activity of the Ministry of Enterprise and Industry and the City of Cartagena, demanding the transfer outside the residential environment of a 132,000 Volt High Voltage Line (LAT) ( 132 kilovolts) that crosses the urbanization of the Santa Ana Residential Estate and whose layout runs along the main street of the urbanization, Avenida Venecia, and the Baden-Powell Square, near an especially sensitive area such as the Miralmonte school.
The layout of the line is in the vicinity of a hundred homes and twenty shops that are distributed 25 meters from the wiring on both sides of the avenue.
This situation involves citizen and residential exposure to low frequency electromagnetic fields produced by the line and a risk of electrical incident in urban areas.
To this is added the visual impact of a high voltage line in the vicinity of a residential area.
Ecologists in Action points out that this power line is an example of the disorderly and unplanned proliferation of power lines and infrastructure in residential areas such as the cases of LATs in the district of El Palmar and the urbanization of Los Rectores that had to relocate in 2015
This uncontrolled proliferation in urban areas of high-voltage lines means an increase in electromagnetic pollution to the citizens of the environment, especially to sensitive people in growth.
The limit values ​​of exposure to electromagnetic fields set forth in Royal Decree 1006/2001 (limit value 100 µT, microteslas), have become obsolete and do not guarantee safety criteria and the development of precautionary principles and ALARA / ALATA (the minimum technically possible emission).
The BioInitiative Report prepared by 29 researchers from ten countries [Sweden (6), USA (10), the President of the Russian National Committee for Non-Ionizing Radiation and a Senior Advisor to the European Environment Agency.), States that the maximum exposure value to low frequency electromagnetic fields inside buildings must be 0.1 microteslas
The IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) has included, since 2000, Electromagnetic Fields of Low Frequency (ELF) as a possible carcinogen, (category 2B), in its listings.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in its Resolution 1815, on the dangers of electromagnetic fields [1], states that:
All reasonable measures must be taken to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields.
Reconsider the scientific basis of current standards of exposure to electromagnetic fields and apply the ALARA principle "as low as reasonably possible"
Establish urban norms that require a safety distance between high voltage lines and other electrical installations and homes;
Since 2001, the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs has raised the need to also reform said article in the sense of “redefining minimum safety distances from high-voltage lines to buildings, homes or public and private use facilities†and of "Update the reference formula for safety distance to high voltage lines".
In this sense, some municipalities such as Jumilla (Murcia), established a greater safety criterion of 1 meter to buildings per kilovolt (1,000 volts), as from various research instances they had indicated
Ecologists in Action has always proposed the planning and establishment of a land reserve for energy corridors where electrical transport and distribution lines are installed within the framework of the regional land regulations that have not been made and that allows the significant growth of this type of electrical infrastructure with the consequent territorial, environmental and social impacts
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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