Carta aberta ao Director da EDP

O holandês Léo Oord escolheu Mondim de Basto para viver há sensivelmente dois anos atrás. Hoje é "peça de mobilia" da nossa terra.

Por alturas do debate levado a cabo pela JS em Maio de 2008, decidiu redigir uma proposta alternativa à Barragem de Fridão, que recentemente decidiu fazer chegar à direcção da EDP. A carta, foi agora disponibilizada pelo próprio para publicação.

Sem qualquer competência para avaliar a razoabilidade desta proposta, destaco a sua atitude anti-barragem, por esta vir acompanhada de uma solução alternativa.

Dear sir director of EDP

It is already some time ago that I came to live in Portugal. I really love it. The country is beautiful, the people are verry gentle.
It is very easy to compare all what I see to what I was used to. I decided not to do so. I accept what I see as the solution people decided as the best.
The same with the dam in the river Tâmega. I don`n know if it is good or bad. But I noticed quite some people around that don`t like this dam. So before you start building I like to offer you some thouthgs.

The dam will change the river totally. More water, less floating, different biotoop. More alges, different animals.

One big dam means also that one fine day when it is ready, one of the ministers, or even the prime minister will come to start the produktion officialy. He (most of the times it is Man) will be your friend for that moment. Specially when the media are filming. Because he likes to be seen on TV. Her hopes to be reelected next time. That makes him your friend for that day.

Our world is changing. And it is changing rapidly. Big scale things will disappear in our nearby future. So a dam as big as the one you planned in a few years will be considerd as large. People are lookingg for a future in which they get back control over there lives. Also for the part of energy. You have the possabillaty to built a dam that does not fit into the future or now go start investing in the future with much smaller structures and a surviving EDP.


The alternative for the people of the future, for the river and the enviarment:
Built 80 or 100 dams in the river Tâmega. Make them small so fish still can swim up and down the river. Make them small so the natur can stay in function the way it is now.
To built this 80 or 100 dams you don`t need concreet. You can built with the local stones and this beautiful Terra Branca (stuck) And realise every kilo of concreet means also a kilo of CO2. And that makes a big dam not an ecological solution, even when the electricity is made with water.
Those 80 to 100 little dams can be made with local material and lokal people. They even can spend the money you need. They can pay there bill for electricity in advance and in that way give you the money for paying the work. By giving a rabat on the price you have to pay less then asking the money you need from the bank.
Also you can buitl the first 20 dams and earn the money to built another 10 ore more.

For you engineers an enormous challange to invent a system that inside the system for transportation also brings information to the mill in the dam. Use the wire also for giving orders to the turbine in the mill. To start working or stop. At the same time your enginers have to invent a system that brings the electricity to the local system or to the main wire for used over distance..

When in summer there is not enough water you can cover the roofs of the buildings (and part of the surroundings ) with a solar sytem, in that way making electricity from the sun.
When you also make a walking road from one dam to the other you make a beautiful touristic way.

You will noticed that you are then invited to be giving lectures in different countries. Yo will feel the importance of the working together with all those little people that makes the EDP by paying there bills every month. And there still is the beauty of the river.

With friendly greetings, Léo Oord

Addres is known by the paper.