Concern over the expansion of the wind farm was expressed by the indigenous Wayuu people in the far north of Colombia on April 5, Legit reports.
The La Guajiru area was intended to be used as a site for renewable energy.
The government of the new left-wing president Gustavo Petro aims to make La Guajira the “Clean Energy Capital of the World.” As part of a vast clean energy transition plan that would see solar and wind power account for eight percent of the nation’s energy supply, two wind farms were recently built on the Caribbean peninsula.
According to the Indepaz Research Institute, La Guajira is native to the Wayuu, and some 600 communities here will be affected by the wind farm project. ISAGEN held “preliminary consultations” with the inhabitants of the area and agreed to finance “productive projects” in exchange for the use of the land for 30 years, an Indepaz spokesperson said. In Lanshalia, this included the installation of solar panels and the delivery of 20,000 liters of drinking water per month.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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