#COP21 | Aquino solar project grabs Luisita land for ‘climate profits’ | UMA Pilipinas
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“The TSPP in Luisita is never about renewable energy, reducing carbon emissions, or any other environmental issue that world leaders are supposedly debating about in Paris. The solar power project in Luisita is basically about landgrabbing, swindling and forcibly evicting farmworkers from this promised land,” he said.
UMA stressed that Aquino and his family’s business partners are engaged in this sophisticated landgrabbing effort only for ‘climate profits’ at the expense of the farmworkers. A German company, Conergy, is also a partner in the said PPP project. Corrupt landlords like the Aquino-Cojuangcos can easily brush off the farmers’ legitimate demands for land and justice to accommodate foreign investors who are ready to bankroll these so-called ‘green’ projects, according to UMA.
A similar solar project this time backed by a French company is in fact contested by farmworkers also affiliated with UMA and the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) in Victorias City, Negros Occidental.