“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 Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera to regulate photovoltaic and wind macroplants in Spain.
The SOS Rural request was made visible today, Friday, with a simulation carried out in Puerta del Sol to illustrate the consequences of installing macroplants solar on farmland.
Subsequently, the citizen movement went to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge to deliver the letter. The letter echoes the approval in Brussels of the so-called Nature Restoration Law.
Renewable macroplants
In it he denounces that there is no major alteration of the ecosystem than that produced when a macro photovoltaic plant is built, after which “nothing grows again for decades.”
The same happens with the mega wind plantswhere “apart from the visual pollution they produce, thousands of protected birds die every year from colliding with the windmill blades.”
In the letter, SOS Rural emphasizes the current lack of protection of farmlanda common good threatened by the uncontrolled proliferation of solar macroplants that puts the food sovereignty of Spain, and takes the opportunity to demand from the minister a comprehensive regulation that protects farmland while respecting its traditional ecosystem.
SOS Rural has been warning for some time that the uncontrolled proliferation of macroplants on farmland poses a threat to the countryside.
Food decapitalization
«We are changing the landscapes and the food that our land produces for solar panels, plastic and screws that sterilize our countryside,” says SOS Rural.
This food decapitalization entails the massive importation of food from third countries that have not met rigorous European quality standards putting Spanish farmers in “a very precarious situation,” points out the movement, which also points to consumers as “the big losers” of this entire process.
Renewable yes, but not like this
SOS Rural assures that «He is by no means against alternative energies.», but denounces «the lack of a national regulatory framework “to address the lack of control over some mega photovoltaic plants that are sterilizing the countryside.”
The citizen movement points out that “for every hectare of cropland that is transformed into plates, a irreversible environmental impact due, among other factors, to the use of aggressive pesticides, earthworks, burial, foundations or fencing that It results in the deterioration of the soil, the desertification of the countryside, and the disappearance of native fauna and flora species.“, as well as the greater risk of fires due to overheating of the land.”
Danger of food dependence
Likewise, the citizen movement that defends the rural world remember that, without a specific regulatory framework that protects farmland, Spain runs the risk of going from energy dependence to food dependence.
Furthermore, he warns that, with the installation of plates, the agricultural land changes its use and becomes industrial land, thus transforming a green blanket for «a sea of iron and glass».
