Costa Tropical
Ministry for the Environment comes out against the idea of building a new cable car to the Sierra Nevada ski station
By h.b.
Oct 17, 2007 - 4:47 PM

The Ministry for the Environment has rejected the project to build the longest cable car in the world in the Sierra Nevada, according to a report printed in El País.

The idea was to link Granada city to the ski station in the Sierra Nevada by means of a 19 km long cable car, capable of carrying as many as 45,000 travellers a day. The promoter of the idea, Juan Antonio López, defended the idea by saying that it was non-polluting, especially compared to the number of cars who currently climb the mountain at weekends during the season.

However the Ministry has rejected the idea, considering that it would transform the ecosystem of the National Park irreversibly.
‘The project is incompatible with the objectives of the National Park’, says the report, adding ‘It is a proposal from private interests, not from social demand, and it would not help the environmental tensions in the area’.

However now there is a wait until the Junta de Andalucía publishes its own environmental impact report before a final decision to block the project is taken.