VALLE NATURAL RÍO GRANDE
On February 8, 2023, 93 town councils (see list below), representing the entire political spectrum of the moment: PP, PSOE, Adelante Andalucía, Por Andalucía, Ciudadanos, Andalucía por Sí and various independent parties, were the architects of that the Municipal Legislative Initiative for planning the "invasion" of renewable megaprojects, citizen participation and the protection of Andalusian territory be debated in the plenary session of the Andalusian Parliament.
Mayors (photo above) who showed up in Seville on the day of their vote (despite the short notice period of 1 week from the Andalusian Parliament), many with their wands of command, representing the loss of their municipal sovereignty.
An Initiative born from non-partisan volunteers and sent to the 785 municipalities of all Andalusia (see story below) and which finally represented the 8 Andalusian provinces.
An Initiative supported by society across the board (see list of supports below).
A unique Initiative in the history of the Andalusian Community, since its creation.
Here you can see the Session: https://www.youtube.com/live/kE3IesJRKD4?feature=share (from minute 5'20" to 1h44'20").
The mayor of Coria del Río, Mr. Modesto González (Andalucía Por Sí), as representative of the ILM, made the exhibition on behalf of the rest of the mayors.
The result of the vote was as follows:
Meanwhile, in the rain,At the entrance to Parliament, the volunteers who participated in this Initiative met, representatives of associations that support it, as well as those affected by the renewable megaprojects and their expropriations:
At the end of the Session, the Minister of Industry Mr. Jorge Paraleda, offers a meeting with the representatives of the ILM, which finally takes place on March 13, 2023, at the Ministry of Industry (Seville) and is attended by In addition to the Counselor, the mayors representing the ILM Modesto González (Coría del Río, Seville) and Pilar Vázquez (Caniles, Granada), ILM volunteers (Manuel Aguilar, Salvador Campos and Marisa Casal), as well as the Deputy Counselor Ana Vielba and the General Technical Secretary Manuel Larrasa:
The meeting does not provide a solution to our requests, questions and queries.
To this day, we continue to demand planning prior to the installation of any renewable industrial megaproject.
On September 30, 2021, the document of the Municipal Legislative Initiative for planning, management and citizen participation in Andalusia of renewable industrial megaprojects is registered in the Andalusian Parliament.
Document that non-partisan volunteers worked for months, and a lawyer turned into Law.
Numerous associations and residents affected by the expropriations, displaced from all the Andalusian provinces, accompany the concentration.
Subsequently, the ILM document will be sent to all the municipalities of Andalusia, for their approval by an absolute majority (in many cases it will be unanimous) in their Plenary Sessions, with the election of a representative and a substitute.
After 9 intense months of work by Andalusian volunteers, on April 28, 2022, the Municipal Legislative Initiative (ILM) was registered in the Andalusian Parliament in Seville, approved in plenary session, by an absolute or unanimous majority, of 72 city councils from throughout Andalusia, representing more than 420,000 voters throughout the Community. An unprecedented historical event.
This ILM consists of a request for a) planning, b) management and c) citizen participation, in the process of installing renewable mega-parks in Andalusia that exceed 5 Mw and are not associated with energy communities (1 Mw occupies an average of 2 .2 Ha).
THE ILM will be voted on in the Andalusian Parliament, within 2 months following the creation of the new Andalusian Government.
It is important that in these months, all citizens ask for support from ALL our parliamentarians, because the immediate future of all Andalusians is at stake.
We are not only talking about promoting the distributed model (self-consumption, energy savings and efficiency, and energy communities) as opposed to the centralized model of the monopoly (oil companies, electricity companies, investment funds, and banks) that keeps our electricity bill hostage and that has precisely doomed to the current crisis.
We are also talking about the expropriation of our fields of cultivation and pasture, of food sovereignty, of our ways of life and health, of cultural heritage, of socioeconomic, tourist and sustainable fabric, of areas of high sensitivity in biodiversity and landscape. And of course, we are talking about a struggle for our natural resources such as water and rare minerals.
We ask that already degraded areas (rooftops, industrial estates, public buildings, etc.) be prioritized, using the low and medium voltage already installed. Increasingly, they are already suffering.
We ask that the production areas be close to the consumption areas, thus avoiding the monstrous power lines and high voltage towers.
Megaprojects are not the solution against climate change.
Megaprojects represent speculation and greed.
from left From right: David Gamito (Estepa, Seville), María Antonia Enríquez (Casabermeja, Málaga), María Luisa Rodas (Montilla, Córdoba), Concepción Renedo (Coria del Río, Seville), Juan Miguel Muñoz (Barbate, Cádiz), José Carrasco (Casares, Málaga), Rafael Aguilera (Alcalá del Valle, Cádiz), Francisco Guerrero and Diego Lozano (Campillos, Málaga), María del Pilar Vázquez (Caniles, Granada), Guzmán Ahumada Gavira (IU), José Luis Ruiz Espejo (PSOE ) and Isabel Galavis (Greens EQUO). Carrying the ILM, Manuel Aguilar, volunteer.
Thanks to all the neighbors and relatives, associations, platforms, professors, jurists, unions, political parties and city councils that have made it possible for the Andalusian Municipal Legislative Initiative for the planning of renewable energy mega-parks to be a petition made a reality, registered in Parliament Andalusian el April 28, 2022.
On August 2, the Andalusian Parliament sends a resolution of the Parliamentary Board, requiring the municipalities to submit new documentation within 30 days.
This rectification is carried out during the month of August, and on August 31, 2022, said documentation is registered in the Parliament in Seville, by a representation of mayors from various Andalusian provinces, together with Parliamentarians who support this proposal of Law.
List of the agreements adopted by the
72 municipalities
who have approved
the Municipal Legislative Initiative,
representing 421,386 voters
Municipality
voters
Province
1
two
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
eleven
12
13
14
fifteen
16
17
18
19
twenty
twenty-one
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
3. 4
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
Four. Five
46
47
48
49
fifty
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
167,844
23,665
18,473
18,286
17,732
14,771
10,056
9,813
9,698
8,188
7,149
6,675
5,762
5,827
4,878
4,253
4,155
4,074
4,027
3,291
3,283
3,283
2,998
2,980
2,893
2,646
2,590
2,482
2,416
2,365
2,350
2,346
2,097
2,073
2011
2002
1981
1,794
1,749
1,694
1,656
1,611
1,573
1,539
1,514
1,441
1,424
1,352
1,187
1,112
1,055
1,045
910
881
756
605
605
487
443
405
363
361
360
311
245
241
222
222
218
213
203
176
421,386
Jerez de la Frontera
Coria del Rio
Montilla
barbate
Border Conil
Albolote
Almanzora Caves
Alora
Steppe
Manilva
Board
Campillos
Durcal
Benalup Old Houses
Jimena de la Frontera
Mall
Alcala del Valle
Casares
Pedrera
Border
kennels
Cullar
Penaflor
Almogia
Casabermeja
shrine
Villanueva de la Concepcion
Ojen
Border Courts
anvil
Peter Abbot
Castellar de la Frontera
Abdalajis Valley
Casarabonela
Ardales
Stone fountain
Zujar
San Martin del Tesorillo
Peel
Castril
Tolox
almargin
Alozaine
The Burg
guaro
Canete the Real
Almachar
Calf Caves
Villanueva de Tapia
tavern
istan
Gaucin
Orce
Alfarnate
Montejaque
Sourcewounded
ratchet
Montecorto
Jubrique
Serratus
Benalauria
Benarraba
Sedella
Genalguacil
Archez
pujarra
Alpandeire
Farajan
Cartajima
parauta
Juzcar
Benadalid
TOTAL VOTERS
CADIZ
SEVILLE
CORDOVA
CADIZ
CADIZ
GRENADE
ALMERIA
MALAGA
SEVILLE
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
GRENADE
CADIZ
CADIZ
MALAGA
CADIZ
MALAGA
SEVILLE
MALAGA
GRENADE
GRENADE
SEVILLE
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
CORDOVA
CADIZ
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
GRENADE
CADIZ
MALAGA
GRENADE
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
ALMERIA
MALAGA
MALAGA
GRENADE
MALAGA
MALAGA
HUELVA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
MALAGA
Town Halls
who have subsequently approved
the Municipal Legislative Initiative,
representing 439,318 voters
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
eleven
12
13
14
fifteen
16
17
18
19
twenty
twenty-one
22
23
Municipality
electors
168,647
94,547
48,989
22,524
15,534
15,395
15,355
14,310
11,747
9,396
5,535
3,618
2,477
2,221
1,585
1,571
1,188
1,153
955
687
672
667
545
Sherry
Cadiz
Conception Line
San Roque
Chipiona
Arahal
coin
Guadix
Santa Fe
medina sidonia
stops
orgiva
Moral of Zafayona
Setenil de las Bodegas
The Iruela
Almonaster the Royal
Benaojan
Zahara de la Sierra
villaralto
Alháquime Tower
algatocin
iznate
Calicases
Province
CADIZ
CADIZ
CADIZ
CADIZ
CADIZ
SEVILLE
MALAGA
GRENADE
GRENADE
CADIZ
SEVILLE
GRENADE
GRENADE
CADIZ
JAEN
HUELVA
MALAGA
CADIZ
CORDOVA
CADIZ
MALAGA
MALAGA
GRENADE
GROUP SUPPORT
Action in Andalusia Network
AGADEN-EeA
aleJAB (Together We Fix the Biosphere)
Algarbía in Transition
Energy and Territory Alliance (ALIENTE)
Malaga Alliance for Climate and Ecology
ÁloraSun
AMMA Almijara
AMPA Jaufil de Zújar
ANA (Friends of Nature Association)
Alive Andalusia
ARBA Guadalix
ARBA Leon
Coastal ARBA
ARBA Montoro (association for the recovery of the native forest)
ASCEL Association for the Conservation and Study of the Iberian Wolf
Assoc. Mountain and Development Serranía de Ronda- RURAL UNIVERSITY
Association “Towards Renewable Energies of the South” HERES
ALBOREM ACTION Association of Alborache
ANCRASE Association
Association Trees against climate change in Granada
Biocultural Association of the Altiplano, from Cúllar
Cultural Association Virgen de la Cabeza de Zújar
Cultural Association Virgen de la Cabeza de Zújar
Cultural and Environmental Association Jácara de Casarabonela
DALMA Association – Guadalajara
Association of Farmers, Ranchers and Producers (AGAPRO) of Orce
Association of Friends of Laguna de la Janda
Responsible Consumption Association “El Garrofero”
Environmental Education Association The lollipop tree
Association of Environmental Education El Bosque Animado (AEA BA)
Association of Entrepreneurs Region of Huéscar
Zújar Entrepreneurs Association
Association of Entrepreneurs of the Altiplano of Granada, Baza
Association of Gardeners El Foncal de los Huertos
Association of Environmental Monitors Almijara
Association of Women Entrepreneurs of the Altiplano of Granada, Baza
Minerva de Caniles Women's Association
Zalema de Zújar Women's Association
Lady of Baza Taxi Drivers Association, Baza
La Velada Neighborhood Association
Neighborhood Association La Voz De Taberno
Mopagan Party Neighborhood Association – Casarabonela
Villa de Caparacena Neighborhood Association
Granada Herpetological Association (AHG)
Comprehensive Women's Association Nature and Creative Welfare Flor de Mayo
Guadix Region Intersectoral Association of Entrepreneurs (AIECG)
La Almáciga Association, Medina Sidonia
Linense Association of Citizen Participation
Mycological Association "Mushrooms and Forest" of Villa del Río
Montequinto Ecological Association
Association of Women Entrepreneurs of the Altiplano of Granada (AMEAG)
Naturalist Association of Ayora and La Valle (ANAV)
Association for the Defense of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Montoro
Association for the Recovery of Traditional Hemp
Association for the Public Roads of the Serranía de Ronda
Association Let's save fields and mountains of the Serranía de Ronda
Save the Fields Association
Somonte Food Sovereignty Association, Posadas
Cordoba Society of Natural History Association
Association Transforming Between Women of Alcalá de Guadaíra
Tombox Association
Rio Grande Natural Valley Association
Iberian Wildlife Association
Zújar ZACHA Association
Valparaíso Nature Classroom (Ecoschool Ave María Casa Madre)
Azaenegue Naturalists
Coin Human Forest
Malaga Human Forest
Center for Ecosocial Development Initiatives (CIDES)
Alcocer Serrano Hiking Club, from El Carpio-Córdoba
Los Morrones de Zújar Sports Club
Coin for Climate
Black Stork Ornithological Collective (Cocn.)
Guaro Irrigation Community
Regulatory Council of Designations of Origin (CRDO) Málaga, Sierras de Málaga and
Malaga raisins
Conservation and Study of Biodiversity in Steppe Environments (CEBIME)
Coordinator of Wind Studies of the Comtat
Ecologists in Action Almanzora Levante
Ecologists in Action of Ciudad Real
Ecologists in Action of Zamora
Ecologists in Action Sierra de La Utrera, Casares-Manilva
Extinction Rebellion Malaga
Families for Climate Malaga
Andalusian Hunting Federation
Federation of Ecologists in Action of Navarra
Provincial Federation of Ecologists in Action of Córdoba
Savia Foundation for Commitment and Values
GRUNSBERG (Sierra Bermeja naturalist group)
HAVARAL mycological group
GPS Hiking Perabeño Group
Brotherhood Virgin of the Head of Zújar
Mothers for Climate Seville
Active Marbella
Table for the Climate-Granada
Another Torremolinos is possible
ParticipaAction for the Altiplanos of Granada
Platform "High Valduerna"
Casarabonela Platform
Citizen Platform for the Protection of the Sierra del Becerrero
Citizen Platform for a Just Ecological Transition
Civic Platform in Defense of Public Health of Campo de Gibraltar
Platform against Waste Incineration in Los Alcores
Platform Let's take care of the Vega
Castril River Defense Platform
Platform to say No to the high voltage towers in the Paraje Montemayor de Benahavís
Platform Say No to Las Torres Granada
Platform in Defense of the Cantabrian Mountains (PDCC)
Platform for the Study and Conservation of the Sierra de Chiva
Platform for the protection of the Ribera del Guadiana Menor
Platform for the Conservation of Steppe Birds and their Habitats
Let's save the Campo de Tabernas platform
Social Platform of the Campo de Gibraltar
SOS Platform Campiña de Jimena
Unitary Platform against the Electric Highway
United People's Valderrey Platform
PREAM- Protection and Recovery of Native Species of the Mediterranean
Malaga Network for Climate 350 Org.
REVIVAZ, education and environmental study
Save Arraijanal
save the fields
SAXIFRAGE
Consciousness Seeds
Albacete Society of Ornithology
Crestcrest Hunter Society
Thirds of the Virgin Brotherhood of the Head of Zújar
URBI used the karttea in Eguesibar (Navarra)
Wild Madrid
BUSINESS SUPPORT
CANDELA Energy Cooperative
Seville Local Group of Som Energía
Sunseed Desert Technology
Upwelling, Environment and Group Dynamics, SL
UNION SUPPORT
CGT-General Labor Confederation Malaga
CNT Malaga
COAG Malaga
SAT Andalusia
UPA Malaga
USTEA Andalusia
SUPPORT OF POLITICAL PARTIES
Forward Andalusia
Green Alliance (political party included in the United We Can coalition space)
Andalusia by itself
Circle of Podemos The Line of Conception
Municipal group of Por Atarfe Yes of the City Council of Atarfe
Andalusian People's Initiative
IU Andalusia
Andalusian Left
More Country Andalusia
Andalusian Communist Party (PCA)
PSOE Andalusia
We can Andalusia
For Atarfe Yes. Neighborhood group of social, political and cultural action of Atarfe
Greens Equo Andalusia
