Green energy not so welcome

In the town of La Ventosa (The Windy), the air tears across a narrow isthmus connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It's one of the windiest places in Mexico and now home to a number of wind farms, mostly Spanish-owned. The farmers who have leased their land have gotten a raw deal, signing contracts that prohibit them from using wide stretches of land around the huge towers. An organization I've been working with - the Union of Organizations of the Northern Isthmus (UCIZONI) has been organizing farmers opposed to the wind farm, pushing for more environmental safeguards and a fairer rent. Little lives with very little electrical use - some families don't even have electricity, the farmers reap no benefit from the project.























anti wind farm organizer
















farmer photographing damaged windmills





















windmill landscape

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