From Green Guide Editor Caroline Peal
THIS year’s Green Guide is about the people
A PROPOSED route for a new AVE high speed rail line would cause ‘total destruction’ for one of Ronda’s key valleys. EXCLUSIVE By Paul Whitelock and Jon Clarke Hundreds of homeowners and hoteliers...
November 17 2011 / No comment / Read More »
A MEETING this week has laid out destruction plans for the Algarrobico hotel. Environment minister Rosa Aguilar and Andalucia Junta president Jose Antonio Grinan agreed that central government will take charge of the...
November 17 2011 / No comment / Read More »
By Eloise Horsfield DEMOLITION of the Algarrobico hotel has been put on hold until the courts are certain that the licence to build it was invalid. The 411-bedroom hotel was constructed illegally on the...
November 17 2011 / No comment / Read More »
D-DAY – or Demolition Day – has come one step closer for the illegal Hotel Algorrobico in Almeria. By James Bryce Both the Junta and Spain’s Supreme Court have slammed developers and Carbonaras...
October 24 2011 / No comment / Read More »
FOR the third year running Spain topped the list of days when the levels of the dangerous gas went above EU safety levels. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) showed...
September 25 2011 / No comment / Read More »
A DOZEN Greenpeace activists have started squatting in Spain’s most controversial illegal building. By Wendy Williams The group are refusing to move until their demands are met to knock down the El Algarrobico,...
September 6 2011 / No comment / Read More »
GREENPEACE has slammed a proposal to prospect for gas on the Costa del Sol. The global pressure group has called for an immediate halt to the exploration project, which could cause ‘chronic contamination’...
August 12 2011 / No comment / Read More »
PRESSURE groups have united behind the IU party to oppose a ‘crazy’ scheme which will see 22 houses and a hotel built on Ronda’s famous Tajo gorge. Ecologistas en Accion and the Plataforma...
August 7 2011 / No comment / Read More »
Transport
On The Right Track? »
SINCE the launch of Spain’s first high-speed railway in 1992, the glamourous, sleek AVE trains have been the envy of the world and made Spain undoubtedly the world...
Slow Progress For Eco-Cars »
DRIVERS are failing to demonstrate their green credentials after it emerged sales of eco-friendly cars flopped in the first nine months of the year. Only 8,000 hybrid cars...
Green And Black (Cars, Not Chocolate) »
Hybrids, electric cars, plug in points, what is the future of motoring? HENRY Ford was famously once noted for offering his pioneering, massproduced model T as being available...
Environmentally Friendly Scooters To Be Tested By Honda In Spain »
MOTORING giant Honda has begun testing its environmentally friendly electric scooter in Spain. The Japanese firm will test 18 zero carbon emitting EV-Neo’s for a year, starting this...
News
Selling The Spanish Sun »
SOLAR panel owners could soon be flogging the electricity they create to energy companies. Those connected to...
January 21 2012 / No comment / Read More »Yellow Peril! »
IS it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a brand new hybrid solar power station....
January 15 2012 / No comment / Read More »Turn Off The Gas, Rajoy! »
SPAIN’S new leader Mariano Rajoy will have the ultimate say in whether to allow the prospecting for...
January 6 2012 / No comment / Read More »New Nuclear Waste Dump Sparks Controversy In Spain »
RAJOY’S new government has announced a €700 million nuclear waste dump for a village near Madrid, provoking...
January 2 2012 / No comment / Read More »Don’t Ruin Ronda’s Valley, Says Former Mayor »
A FORMER Ronda mayor has pleaded for a rethink on a freight train plan that would ruin...
December 29 2011 / No comment / Read More »Catfish Threaten Ecosystem In Andalucia »
EXPERTS are assessing what the invasion of a ‘huge and ferocious’ fish could mean for Andalucia’s fragile...
December 18 2011 / No comment / Read More »High Speed Train Tunnel Vision In Ronda »
THE mayors of Ronda and Arriate are supporting a plan to protect Ronda’s beautiful Llano de la...
December 16 2011 / No comment / Read More »
