The scarce resources of this country should not be spent without the necessary feasibility studies and environmental impact assessments ... The "wrong investments" that will be the result of agriculture and environment should not be allowed ... The thermal power plant project has again hit agricultural land. Every year more and more new ones are added to the power plant projects built on agricultural land that our newspaper brings to the agenda frequently. The coal-fired thermal power plant planned to be built in Kırklareli Ovası is intended to be installed in an agricultural site. With the project, "the destruction of Kırklareli Plain" which is one of the important agricultural lands of the country increases the worries.
Coal-fired thermal power plants built on agricultural land, especially in this period where the dependency on agriculture is gradually increasing, has a great impact on the agriculture of the country. Kırklareli fruit, plain meets 30 percent of vegetable and animal production, ranks among Turkey's most fertile farmland. In addition Plain Kırklareli, Turkey is assuming an important cargo in sunflowers and wheat production.
800 THOUSAND PEOPLE WILL BE AFFECTED
It is planned to build on a total area of 500 decares while the planned power plant will have a width of 800 football fields. The plant, planned to operate for 35 years, will burn 258 tons of coal per hour and spread 74 tons of ash around it. It is stated that Thrace's agricultural lands will be polluted with acid rain, it is stated that it will cause a great destruction in the environment. It is stated that 800 thousand people will put an end to agriculture and animal husbandry due to the thermal power plant, and it is recorded that Kırklareli farming, which provides 70 percent of its income through agriculture, will be hit hard.
Local people waiting for the completion of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report stated that the coal-fired thermal power plant would not make the Thrace Region uninhabitable. Citizens, the coal-fired thermal power plant will be a great blow, voicing, "This is an agricultural site. Between protected agricultural land. The establishment of the plant by expropriation of this place is the removal of Kirklareli from the agricultural region and leaving the local people to die."