Solar Narratives
León (Castilla y León)
Period: 2022-2025
The region of La Sobarriba is located just a few kilometres from the city of León and is mainly made up of the 20 villages and 2 groups of houses that form part of the municipality of Valdefresno. Its landscape is formed by gentle hills of dry land, and is crossed by the Camino de Santiago and situated between the rivers Porma, Bernesga and Torío. In this context, Narrativas Solares was born, which brings together the desire of some neighbours who live in La Sobarriba to make visible the problems and contradictions, both eco-social and on a personal and emotional level, that arise in their territory with the installation of a macro-solar plant.
This fact, which a priori represents a great advance towards decarbonisation, means for many of them, who have been fighting for years in eco-social activism, the university and the defence of rural areas, a hijacking of their environmentalist narratives by the big energy companies.
These people, who are beginning to organise themselves in the Platform in Defence of La Sobarriba, believe that to take on such an oversized extractivist project in this territory is to repeat a model of energy colonisation that has already occurred many times in the province of León with the Riaño reservoir, the underground and open-cast mines in the valleys of Laciana and El Bierzo, and the thermal power plant at La Robla.
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Partners
Junta Vecinal de Villavente Instituto Leonés de Cultura - Diputación de León Actividades Culturales ULE Ayuntamiento de Valdefresno
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