Lascellas-Ponzano opens its ordinance on biogas plants for public exhibition

The Lascellas-Ponzano City Council has initially approved the municipal ordinance regulating the activities of biogas, biomethane, and composting plants, as well as the disposal of organic waste or by-products within its municipal boundaries. The agreement was adopted by the Plenary in the session of November 4, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Huesca No. 214, dated November 9, 2026, opening a period of 30 business days for the submission of allegations.

The processing complies with articles 49 and 70.2 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, regulating the bases of the local regime; article 56 of the revised text of the local regime; article 140 of Law 7/1999, of April 9, on Local Administration of Aragon; and article 130.2 of Decree 347/2002, of November 19, which approved the regulation of assets, activities, services, and works of the local entities of Aragon. The announcement, signed in Lascellas-Ponzano on November 6, 2026, by the mayor, Alfredo Pallás Guiral, is listed under official reference BOPH-2026-214026 and occupies page 113 of the gazette, within the Local Administration section.

Thirty business days to examine and allege

The text will be available to any interested party from the day following the insertion of the announcement in the provincial gazette, via two consultation methods:

• In person, at the municipal offices of the Lascellas-Ponzano City Council.
• Electronically, at the municipal electronic headquarters (https://lascellas-ponzano.sedelectronica.es/).

The business period for claims and suggestions is 30 days, not one calendar month. If no claim is submitted after this period, the plenary agreement will be understood as definitively approved without the need for a new pronouncement by the Plenary, as stated in the announcement itself.

Which activities are covered

The ordinance is not limited to renewable gas generation plants, but rather regulates four blocks of activity on municipal land:

• Biogas plants.
• Biomethane plants.
• Composting facilities.
• Waste treatment activities and the disposal of organic waste or by-products.

The reference to organic by-products is relevant in a municipality with an agricultural and livestock profile, where these types of facilities are fed by slurry, manure, and plant remains, and generate digestate whose destination must also be regulated.

Background: from Siétamo to the provincial debate

Lascellas-Ponzano is not blazing this trail alone. The Siétamo City Council initially approved an ordinance of nearly identical content—biogas, composting, and the treatment of organic waste or by-products—by agreement of the Plenary on September 10, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Huesca No. 175, dated September 14, 2026, with the same 30-day period and the signature of its mayor, José Mª Loscertales Aranda.

In parallel, the debate has reached other institutions. On October 8, 2026, the Plenary of the Provincial Council of Huesca unanimously rejected—with 12 votes from the Popular group—a resolution proposal from the Socialist group regarding the regulation of biogas plant facilities, according to the extract published in provincial bulletin No. 200, dated October 19, 2026. On the urban planning front, the Provincial Urban Planning Council of Huesca, in its session on September 23, 2026, reported on isolated modification No. 9 of the PGOU (General Urban Planning Plan) of Castejón de Sos (file 2026/89), which establishes a specific regime for facilities for the production, transformation, storage, and evacuation of renewable energy on non-developable land; the same agreements reproduce local ordinances that require biomethane plants to provide landscape and noise studies, in addition to minimum distances of one kilometer between facilities.

A municipality with a tight budgetary margin

The weight of the decision is best measured by the municipal accounts: on October 16, 2026, the Plenary initially approved a budget for 2027 with a consolidated expenditure statement of 341,217.00 euros and an income statement of 358,935 euros, according to the announcement published in bulletin No. 210, dated November 3, 2026. With that margin, a specific ordinance allows the City Council to set implementation conditions and not depend solely on sectoral regulations or general urban planning.

Furthermore, the regulation arrives at a time of deployment of renewable gas projects in the province, with plants seeking to inject biomethane into the grid or sell liquefied CO2, and at a time when city councils are demanding their own tools to manage traffic, odors, noise, and discharges.

For developers and residents, the period now opening is the only window to influence the content of the ordinance: those who do not file an objection within these 30 business days will face a definitively approved text applicable to future licenses and authorizations throughout the municipal district of Lascellas-Ponzano.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Huesca, No. 214, November 9, 2026, Local Administration, page 113 (official reference: BOPH-2026-214026).