Beja: "The Greens" spread black flags against super-intensive olive grove.
black flags of protest against the super-intensive olive groves, placed by the Ecologist Party "The Greens" in various places in the Alentejo. Beja flags and stripe on the IP2.
Or Ecologist Party "Os Verdes" (EPI) organized a protest campaign against the super-intensive olive grove, by placing 500 black flags, to mark the locations of the three districts of Alentejo, most affected by this culture, which according to the ENP "is a death threat the future of the Alentejo, which destroys soil and contaminate water ".
Leaders of "The Greens" traveled municipalities of Portalegre districts, Evora and Beja, placing the black flags defending national leader Manuel Cunha that "in addition to the landscape change, with this type of culture's region being heavily penalized, against the commitment of the productive capacity of soils in the future ", concluded.
In Beja, It was placed a track and several black flags with the IP2, drawing attention to the fact that "the olive groves are to surround the city and destroy the famous pottery of Beja".
Recent work of Lidador News about the debts of farmers to edia for supplying water, revealed that the 120 hectares structure, 82% They were watered by alqueva, mostly with super-intensive olive plantations.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
