A solar panel situated near olive trees amid a project to install photovoltaic plants in Lopera, near Jaen. — AFP
AT his farm in southern Spain, Francisco Campos looked worriedly at a green sea of centuries-old olive trees that he fears will face the axe to make way for a proposed solar park.
“Cutting down olive trees to install solar panels is a crime,” said the 64-year-old farmer in Lopera, a town of whitewashed buildings with 3,600 residents in the sunny southern region of Andalusia, Spain’s olive-growing heartland.
