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In southern Spain, thousands of hectares of ancient olive groves will be destroyed to make room for solar panels. Campaigners estimate that 100,000 olive trees will be uprooted to make way for the “green,” “renewable” solar farms.
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Spain is home to some of the world’s oldest olive trees, particularly in the Montsià plains of southern Catalonia, where more than 4,400 trees are thought to be over 1,000 years old and are still producing olives. Some are over 2,000 years old, dating all the way back to Roman times.
The Sénia region, located between Barcelona and Valencia, is known for having over 4,900 ancient olive trees, with the Taula del Sénia institution conducting an ongoing census of these trees since 2009.
These trees are not only significant for their age but also for the unique olive oil they produce, which is appreciated for its quality despite the challenges in harvesting from such old and fragile trees.
Yet, about 700 kilometres away, in southern Spain, ancient olive groves are facing uprooting as solar projects expand, particularly in the region of Andalusia, which is known for its high sunshine hours and olive oil production.
Related: The History and Culture of Olives in Andalucia, Toma & Coe,13 September 2023
The town of Lopera, for instance, is at the heart of this conflict, with plans for eight major solar installations that could affect up to 1,000 hectares of land. Olive grove owners are struggling to save their plantations and fight against expropriation, with some landowners agreeing to lease their plots while others are holding out despite facing forced expropriation.
Campaigners predict that the eight solar projects planned for the area will require the removal of nearly 100,000 olive trees. The regional government puts the estimate lower, at 13,000. Losing 500 hectares of olive groves would wipe out more than two million euros ($2.3 million) in annual revenues, according to local olive oil cooperative La Loperana.
So far, about 5,000 olive trees have been uprooted in the Province of Jaén, where the equivalent of about 100 football fields of olive trees will be lost.
Read more:
- ‘It’s a crime’: Solar park boom threatens Spain’s olive tree growers, The Local, 14 April 2025
- One hundred olive farmers face eviction to make way for giant solar farm, The Telegraph, 23 March 2025
Jaén is the largest producer of olive oil in the world. Olive trees in Jaén cover an area of approximately 600,000 hectares; there are so many trees that the region is known as the “Sea of Olives.” In January 2017, the “Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia” was placed on UNESCO’s tentative list for inclusion to be nominated as a World Heritage Site.
In February 2023, the application for listing the Landscape as a UNESCO World Heritage Site was finalised. It was hoped that the Sea of Olives would be among the contenders to receive protected status from the United Nations at UNESCO’s July 2024 meeting. Unfortunately, the Sea of Olives did not make it onto the list of 28 sites being considered at the UNESCO meeting. Andalusia’s olive groves are still on Spain’s tentative list.
Despite this, the Spanish government is planning to uproot 100,000 olive trees to make way for “green,” “renewable,” intermittent and unreliable energy, as shown in the depressing video tweeted by Bernie Spofforth (“Bernie”).
Tweeting the same video, Global Dissident commented: “In Spain’s Andalusia, hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees were destroyed to make room for solar panels. A crime against nature and common sense. We all saw the result: blackouts.”
Related:
- Massive blackout in Spain and Portugal last week was caused by reliance on “renewable” energy
- Spain-Portugal power outage: Many are pointing to “renewable” energy as the cause
Featured image: Spain’s ‘Sea of Olives’ Among the Candidates for UNESCO Recognition, Olive Oil Times, 29 April 2021
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While at the same time the UK wants to block out the sun using geo- engineering while promoting solar panel use by new homes.The EU is full of enough crap to make sure that it doesn’t survive, Perhaps Spain should consult England ….
This is total madness. Is there no resistance to this. Is nobody speaking up? Olives are one of the Healthiest foods in the world. There should be major protests in Spain to stop this!
Oh, FFS! These mad b*st*rds need to be STOPPED!
“Climate change” is caused by the global geoengineering weather modification project. According to Eric Trump, early in the new administration, the geoengineering project was shut down, and he asked people to send him photo evidence from wherever they are in the world that their weather is normalising, and I can say that where I live, which has a normal weather pattern of endless sunny days, summer and winter, with a wet month in Spring and one in Autumn, and where we’ve had endless cloudy days and rain every other week since the early ’80’s, the weather has finally returned to normal.
The simple science of CO2 is –
CO2 is food for plants.
The more CO2 there is, the more the plants grow.
The more the plants grow, the more oxygen they make.
The more oxygen the make, the better it is for us.
Nature moves in self-harmonising circles. These mad b*st*rds move vertically linearly. They are attempting to create a global world order with them at the top. They are so unsound in mind that they think the way to attain to leadership is to lie about everything and, from one viewpoint, they’re right – because if the truth came out, we’d all realise that they are the dumbest animals known to man and are completely incapable of being rational or hearing the voice of their conscience, and certainly should never be in any kind of leadership position. And more than dumb: they are actually criminally insane.
This from Blacks Law Dictionary, Vol 5:
INSANITY. Unsoundness of mind; madness; mental alienation or derangement; a morbid psychic condition resulting from disorder of the brain, whether arising from malformation or defective organization or morbid processes affecting the brain primarily or diseased states of the general system implicating it secondarily, which involves the intellect, the emotions, the will, and the moral sense, or some of these faculties, and which is characterized especially by their non-development, derangement, or perversion, and is manifested, in most forms, by delusions, incapacity to reason or to judge, or by uncontrollable impulses. In law, such a want of reason, memory, and intelligence as prevents a man from comprehending the nature and consequences of his acts or from distinguishing between right and wrong conduct. Crosswell v. People, 13 Mich. 427, 87 Am.Dec. 774; Johnson v. Insurance Co., 83 Me. 182, 22 A. 107; Frazer v. Frazer, 2 Del.Ch. 263.
Criminal insanity
Want of mental capacity and moral freedom to do or abstain from doing particular act. State v. Schafer, 156 Wash. 240, 286 P. 833, 838. [italics mine]
There are arid areas in Spain which would be ideal for solar farms ( if they were even necessary) without uprooting ancient olive trees in more productive areas. This is madness.
They must have Hey in teh head onstead of a brain
Idiots!!! they deserve what they will get once a hail storm hits. just who is making these bad decisions there?
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zSff0pwc1Xc same thing only different
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WeW4GcJ0oro
https://needtoknow.news/2022/03/ivanka-trump-a-young-global-leader-at-the-world-economic-forum/
[…] In the sun-drenched plains of southern Spain, a bitter conflict is unfolding as centuries-old olive groves – some dating back to Roman times – are being uprooted to make way for solar energy projects. […]
[…] In the sun-drenched plains of southern Spain, a bitter conflict is unfolding as centuries-old olive groves – some dating back to Roman times – are being uprooted to make way for solar energy projects. […]
[…] In the sun-drenched plains of southern Spain, a bitter conflict is unfolding as centuries-old olive groves – some dating back to Roman times – are being uprooted to make way for solar energy projects. […]