At the addresses of some owners of land in the area of the municipality of Glamoc, municipal decisions have begun to arrive in which their land is exempted for the construction of the “Skadimovac” wind farm.
The decision states that the estimated value of the land is 30 pfennigs (15 cents) per square meter.
The municipality of Glamoc, in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), made a decision on land acquisition last year. The municipality has about 4,000 inhabitants and belongs to extremely underdeveloped municipalities.
The citizens of Glamoc who received the decision told that no one asked them if they wanted to sell the land. They state that they are not against the wind farm construction project, but that they do not want to sell their land at such a low price.
In 2012, the concession was awarded to the company “WBL city project” from Banja Luka, whose activity is design and construction. The concession was granted for 30 years.
Two years later, this concession was transferred by contract to the company “RWP Vitorog”, whose activity is the production and distribution of electricity. This company is registered at the same address as the previous concessionaire, and the owners of both companies are the same.
What do owners of the land say?
Marinko Bosnic received a decision from the municipality of Glamoc, which exempts him from 2.6 hectares of land for the purpose of building a wind park.
Marinko Bosnic said that a pole for measuring wind speed and an access road were illegally installed on his plot a year ago.
The price of the land is also disputed for Milorad Milisic, who owns 24 hectares.
“The estimated value of the land in some of the offices is 30 pfennigs per square meter, which is impossible to find anywhere. We will not agree to that. No one, 95 percent of the owners did not agree to that,” claimed Milisic.
According to Marko Kureljusic, who is the owner of 20 hectares, of which 700 square meters are intended for the wind park, he hired a lawyer because of the situation.
“For me and for everyone, it is a shameful price of 30 pfennigs for 30 years. They had said 10 pfennigs, and then allegedly increased it. We have already handed over to the lawyers to sue, the two or three of us,” says Kureljusic.
Nikola Srdic, councilor of the opposition Serbian Progressive Party in the Glamoc Municipality Assembly, claims that owners of the land who sold land directly to concessionaires, a few years ago, received a price three times higher than what the municipality is offering to plot owners now.
