Referendum against the Desecration of the Landscape
An alliance has launched a referendum against the Electricity Act. The protection of nature and landscape is at risk of being sacrificed to energy production.
The people shall decide on the law on a secure electricity supply from renewable energies.
A newly founded alliance has launched a referendum. It criticises the fact that the framework legislation leaves the protection of nature and landscape by the wayside.
Most environmental organisations accepted that nature and landscape would be sacrificed to electricity production, the Alliance for Nature and Landscape Switzerland argued before the media in Bern. The framework legislation gives priority to renewable energy production facilities over nature and landscape protection.
Therefore, the people should decide on the framework legislation. The alliance, founded with a view to the referendum, has until 18 January to gather the 50’000 signatures required for the referendum to succeed.
Following the referendum, it intends to support further projects, including an initiative demanding that the potential of buildings and infrastructure be fully exploited for solar energy production before modules are installed in the landscape.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
