According to the airline, the safety of travelers, local residents are paramount. “There are major concerns about the glare that pilots experience while landing on the Polderbaan. The current risk is unacceptable and it is essential that this problem is tackled,” KLM reports. There have been discussions between the ministry, the aviation parties, the owner, municipality and inspection for months. +++
On Wednesday, summary proceedings must be encouraged to encourage the owner DGEC to remove the solar panels because time is starting to penetrate. Schiphol says that the landscaped solar park under the approach route to the Polder and Zwanenburgbaan is too high a risk for flight safety according to safety experts. The damage increases and, according to insiders, is already three hundred million euros.
Municipality of Haarlemmermeer
In March, the municipality of Haarlemmermeer announced that the relevant solar panels would be removed, but so far that has not happened. According to the municipality, the company cannot be forced to do so. Owner DGEC does not think about removing the solar panels, reported it to De Telegraaf on Sunday. Schiphol does not want their most important job in the daily striker to go out around ten o’clock, because this puts pressure on the hub operation and the rest of the area.
‘Drama with controversial solar panels Schiphol costs 300 million euros’
Black pits are fully going around the soap of the solar park. The spotlight is increasingly on the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, because it gave a permit while it was already warned from local politics that this could possibly cause problems for air traffic. The partnership in collaboration with Schiphol, KLM, the air traffic control and EasyJet also pointed out at the time that one certain type of glass should be used, but that did not happen.
Bouw Zonnepark is going on in the meantime
The municipality did not maintain that either. “It is unimaginable that not enough requirements have been set in advance, so that one tanning field causes three hundred million euros in damage and the polder lane is laminating. It shows that safety requirements for energy projects are really needed. We demand that the province will permit more strictly, flight safety goes for everything,” says Member of Daniël van den Berg of JA21. In the meantime, the construction of the solar park will continue.
The municipality of Haarlemmermeer wants ‘standards’ to come quickly for the construction of solar parks, but according to Schiphol this is not a solution for the end of August. According to insiders, it is almost certain that the runways will close, because it will no longer work to remove the solar panels.