“Renewable yes, but not like this” is the message chosen by SOS Rural to mobilize a petition signed by more than 12,000 citizens which will arrive in the form of a letter to the Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera at regulate photovoltaic and wind macroplants in Spain.
The request of SOS Rural was made visible today Friday, with a simulation carried out at the Puerta del Sol for illustrate the consequences of installing macroplants solar on agricultural land.
Subsequently, the citizens’ movement contacted the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge to deliver the letter. The letter echoes approval in Brussels of the so-called law of restoration of nature.
Renewable macroplants
He denounces it there is no major alteration of the ecosystem than that produced during the construction of a macro photovoltaic power station, after which “nothing grows for decades”.
The same thing happens with the mega wind power plantswhere “in addition to the visual pollution they produce, thousands of protected birds die each year due to collisions with wind turbine blades.”
In the letter, SOS Rural underlines the current lack of protection of agricultural landa common good threatened by the uncontrolled proliferation of solar macroplants which puts the food sovereignty from Spain, and takes the opportunity to demand from the minister a global regulation that protects agricultural land while respecting its traditional ecosystem.
Food decapitalization
“We are changing the landscapes and the food our land produces to solar panels, plastic and screws which sterilize our countryside,” declares SOS Rural.
This food decapitalization leads to the massive importation of foodstuffs from third countries which do not meet strict European quality standards placing Spanish farmers in “a very precarious situation,” the movement stresses, which also designates consumers as “the big losers” in this whole process.
Renewable yes, but not like this
SOS Rural assures that “He is not against alternative energy in any way.“, but denounces “the lack of national regulatory framework “to remedy the lack of control over certain mega photovoltaic power stations which are sterilizing the countryside.”
The citizens’ movement emphasizes that “for each hectare of cultivated land transformed into plates, a irreversible environmental impact due to, among other factors, the use of aggressive pesticides, earthworks, burial, foundations or fencing which This results in soil deterioration, desertification of the countryside and the disappearance of native flora and fauna species.“, as well as the increased risk of fires due to overheating of the land.”
Danger of food addiction
Similarly, the citizen movement which defends the rural world remember that without specific regulatory framework which protects agricultural land, Spain runs the risk of moving from energy dependence to food dependence.
Furthermore, he warns that with the installation of plates, agricultural lands change use and become industrial lands, thus transforming a green carpet for “a sea of iron and glass“.
