PROBAAL related press
Iberdrola gives up on Algarve solar plant
Date: 04.08.2023
Record response floods in on last day for people’s feelings on Sotavento solar project
Date: 21.07.2023
Public consultation of the Estoi Solar Photovoltaic Plant is over
Date: 21.07.2023
A photovoltaic plant larger than Faro’s historic centre is planned for Tavira
Date: 21.07.2023
AS THIS MAPS SHOWS – THE AREA PROPOSED IS ALSO EQUAL TO WHOLE URBAN AREA OF TAVIRA
Algarve – Solar park to be built in protected area
Date: 25.06.2023
Iberdrola starts “solar grazing” in Portugal with around 300 sheep
Date: 22.06.2023
Solar park projects pushed through “without transparency”
Date: 22.06.2023
“Wall of silence” surrounding new Algarve solar park
Date: 21.06.2023
Government accused of railroading communities with Mega Solar Parks
Date: 19/06/2023
MEGA SOLAR POWER STATIONS
When the ”Green” transition is not fair
Date: 19/06/2023
Algarve campaigners intensify battle to save heritage landscape from massive solar park
Date: 10/06/2023
Environmental concerns concerns haunt the Estoi photovoltaic power station
Date: 01/06/2023
Battle begins to save Barrocal landscape from transformation into massive solar park
Date: 25/05/2023
Journal do Algarve
Journalist João Prudêncio recently visited the site at Cerro do Leiria and has written a very thorough piece regarding the situation here. The article contains contributions from PROBAAL members, Claudia Sil of the Sustainable Water
Platform (PAS) and biologist João Pinto from the University of the Algarve, Faro.
The President of Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Carlos Sousa, also spoke with the paper, saying ”We all recognise that energy is an asset for our country, but the Junta de Freguesia thinks that there were alternatives that would not harm the parish in the barrocal. We have areas further inland that could be used for this purpose”. As to the hypothetical lack of land available for this project, the mayor added: “Here in the Barrocal, the land wasn’t available either. They were looking for land and had to buy and rent. The Junta de Freguesia is calmly awaiting the position of the public consultation, and what the people will say. It’s not about getting up there and putting up the panels”, he concluded.
Date: 27/01/2022
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Solar Farm at What Cost?
by Nina Dar
A brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter Podcast.
In Season 3 – If Not You, Who? This season features people who are getting out there trying to make a difference, often against the odds.
It’s a season of stories about ordinary, everyday people with the guts and determination to take on is big issues
Date: December 2021
Open Letter to Iberdrola in
El Correo, Bilbao
Bilbao is where the headquarters of Iberdrola are, which is why we wrote our first open letter to this newspaper. It read as follows:
”Renewable energies are not worth our biodiversity, soil or water;
The environmental association PROBAAL opposes the 83MW Estoi-Tavira solar project proposed by Iberdrola S.A. in Cerro do Leiria, Algarve, Portugal. Its implementation would deforest 2kms; destroy habitats, biodiversity and trees,
in an area of National Ecological Reserve. Designated as an area of maximum infiltration of the Peral/Moncarapacho aquifer, a strategic area of protection and recharge and an area of high hydrological vulnerability, its deforestation
would accentuate the already high levels of soil erosion and hinder the recharge of the aquifer.”
”We say to Iberdrola that any photovoltaic project on Cerro do Leiria will be illegal, in violation of the Algarve Spatial Planning Law (PROT) and the Ecological Reserves Law. It is also sad to find cases where intimidation tactics have been used by officials to obtain land in Cerro do Leiria, even before the Environment Agency has reviewed a case. PROBAAL will protect this land by all legal means because destroying the planet to save it is not a madness we can tolerate.”
Date: 07/10/2022
25/06/2021
Sul Informação
26/05/ 2021
Sul Informação
12/05/2021
Algarve Daily News.com
19/03/2021
The Portugal News
Environment Agency rejects Iberdrola’s Algarve PV project
Date: 03.08.2023