Calanda opens public information for a pig farm with 1,999 spaces

The Calanda City Council has opened a fifteen-day public information period regarding the environmental license for classified activities requested for a pig fattening farm with a capacity of 1,999 spaces. The procedure is announced in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel no. 215, dated November 10, 2026, with the official reference 2026-3145, and allows affected parties to examine the file and submit allegations at the municipal offices.

The opening of the period is agreed upon in compliance with Article 77.3 of Law 11/2014, of December 4, on Environmental Prevention and Protection of Aragon, which requires environmental licenses for classified activities to be submitted for public information before their resolution. The announcement appears in the Local Administration section of the gazette, within the section dedicated to the municipality of Calanda, on page 5 of the issue.

The application is submitted by Agrícola Ganadera Bajo Aragón, S.L. in the name and representation of Jorge Colomer García, with the NIF partially hidden in the publication (73***43**). The project is signed by the technical engineer of agricultural holdings Fernando Tornos Cosialls, as detailed in the text of the announcement, and the file is processed within the city council itself.

Location and characteristics of the farm

The projected installation will be developed in polygon 19 of the municipal district of Calanda, on plots 167 and 185, which the announcement identifies with the cadastral references 44051A019001670000BK and 44051A019001850000BA. The declared activity is pig fattening, with a total capacity of 1,999 spaces, according to the literal designation of the project under processing.

The published text does not detail the built area, number of warehouses, or slurry management system, details that do not appear in the announcement and can only be consulted in the municipal file during the exhibition period.

Deadlines and form of participation

The public information period is fifteen days from the insertion of the announcement in the provincial gazette, that is, from this November 10, 2026. During that period, any interested party may:

• Examine the file at the municipal offices of the Calanda City Council.
• Formulate any allegations and observations they consider pertinent.
• Consult the technical documentation provided by the promoter and the engineer’s project.

The announcement reminds that the environmental license for classified activities is a prerequisite and distinct from other sectoral authorizations that the farm may need, and that the public information does not resolve the authorization by itself, but rather opens the participation phase before the municipal decision.

Two livestock files on the same day

The publication of this announcement coincides in the same issue of the bulletin with another application from the same company in Calanda: reference 2026-3146, submitted by Agrícola Ganadera Bajo Aragón, S.L. on behalf of Hermanos Colomer García, for a beef cattle fattening operation of 300 calves in polygon 1, plots 132 and 315, also with a project by Fernando Tornos Cosialls and subject to the same fifteen-day procedure.

Throughout the Bajo Aragón region, other similar livestock procedures have occurred in recent weeks, such as the public information for file 34/2026 in Samper de Calanda (reference 2026-3041, Bulletin no. 201 of October 20, 2026), which plans to expand a beef cattle fattening operation from 100 to 350 spaces.

Impact on the municipality

The processing directly affects the residents of Calanda and the surrounding farms, who have two weeks to comment on a project for nearly 2,000 porcine spaces, a significant figure for the region’s livestock census. The file remains open within a context of debate regarding intensive livestock farming in Bajo Aragón, where several applications for expansion and new fattening installations coincide.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Teruel, no. 215, of November 10, 2026, section I (Local Administration), page 5 (official reference: 2026-3145).