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Electrical giant brings in diggers for megaproject in Spain’s Driving Over Lemons country despite town hall bans

It comes after the Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz - the official that deals with public complaints - this month called on the Junta to express its position on the REE megaproject

4 Aug, 2019 @ 10:01

Environment·Granada·Lead·Nature

EU Ministers to discuss the trade of dirty electricity between Spain and Morocco amid links to controversial REE project in Granada

It comes as anti-pylon campaigners wrote to the Minister of Ecological Transition and Spain’s European Commissioner to demand an end to all electrification projects

11 May, 2019 @ 09:44

Environment·Lead

British expats in Spain among 100 homeowners to face compulsory purchases of land due to huge pylon network

The next step is for the Junta to declare the 182km route as a public utility and the process of expropriation will begin

25 Apr, 2019 @ 12:04

Environment·Lead

FIGHT THE POWER: Olive Press launches campaign to stop network of 352 pylons ‘destroying’ Andalucia’s Lecrin Valley and Alpujarras

Thousands of people are affected and the proposed route, which begins in Conchar in the west and ends at Benahadux in the east, was approved back in 2015

23 Mar, 2019 @ 09:00

Almeria·Environment·Granada·Lead·Nature