A hydroelectric plant costing over 2 milion euro is being built across one of Barga’s mountain streams -- the Corsonna, which upon completion in January of next year should, according to the designers, be producing two and a half million kilowatts of electricity every year.
Up until very recently any news of the building of this hydroelectric plant in the comune was more or less unheard-of to most of the population as the location is a good way up on the mountainside with not a lot of passing traffic. Added to which the main construction and design company building this project were keeping what was described today by Geom. Nicola Magri, chief designer from the Maddaleni Studio, as a “low profile”. That was until a couple of articles appeared in local newspapers including one which had the headline “planning abuse? ”
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This morning the Direttore dei Lavoro Ing. Renzo Luvisi and Geom. Nicola Magri met with local journalists and set the record straight. According to them, absolutely no planning abuses, all permissions and licenses are in order and everything is being built up to and even exceeding the strict letter of the law. In fact they’re talking about avant-garde technology being used in the plant to safeguard and respect the environment. Any talk of abuse of planning is according to them completely untrue and according to both men, an insult to their profession. They insist that all the water taken out from Corsonna will be returned without variation in temperature or speed. They also noted that the plant will not be running during the summer months from the 15th June until 15th October.