With all due respect, you should come to Spain (where I am) to assess whether the claims you are making about the benefits of eliminating EIA for renewable projects are true. NGO's are springing up all around the country like mushrooms after this "renewables" rain in a desperate attempt to protect our vulnerable rural ecosystems and endangered species, humans included, as these projects rob people of their livelihood (agriculture, tourism, fishing) in addition to destroying the landscape (that we are supposed to protect according to the Landscape Convention). And we don't even have a say, as RED III did away with public participation right enshrined in the Aarhus Convention, on top of scrapping nature protection we are supposed to ensure according to the Birds and Habitats Directives, and the landscape protection outlined in the Landscape Convention. You should come and and see at least one enormous solar farm built in a picture-perfect Spanish valley where olive trees were cut down to make room for black panels. You should check how dead everything is under and around these enormous farms. You should look into how promoters manipulate the law by splitting one big project into several smaller ones to access this simplified permitting procedure. You should watch documentaries and read scientific papers by local and foreign scientists who describe all the horrendous environmental and socioeconomic impacts of these monstrous wind and solar farms on our land and in our sea. Basically, do some research and take field trips to get your facts straight, before spreading misinformation and encouraging more of this barbarian treatment of nature and people.
With all due respect, you should come to Spain (where I am) to assess whether the claims you are making about the benefits of eliminating EIA for renewable projects are true. NGO's are springing up all around the country like mushrooms after this "renewables" rain in a desperate attempt to protect our vulnerable rural ecosystems and endangered species, humans included, as these projects rob people of their livelihood (agriculture, tourism, fishing) in addition to destroying the landscape (that we are supposed to protect according to the Landscape Convention). And we don't even have a say, as RED III did away with public participation right enshrined in the Aarhus Convention, on top of scrapping nature protection we are supposed to ensure according to the Birds and Habitats Directives, and the landscape protection outlined in the Landscape Convention. You should come and and see at least one enormous solar farm built in a picture-perfect Spanish valley where olive trees were cut down to make room for black panels. You should check how dead everything is under and around these enormous farms. You should look into how promoters manipulate the law by splitting one big project into several smaller ones to access this simplified permitting procedure. You should watch documentaries and read scientific papers by local and foreign scientists who describe all the horrendous environmental and socioeconomic impacts of these monstrous wind and solar farms on our land and in our sea. Basically, do some research and take field trips to get your facts straight, before spreading misinformation and encouraging more of this barbarian treatment of nature and people.