(20 Feb 2025)
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Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira, Colombia – 7 February 2025
1. Various drone shots of wind turbines operating on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela ++MUTE++
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Bogota – 18 February 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Nieves, founder of Colombian Offshore Wind Research Network:
"Colombia has a need for renewable sources of energy, sources of electricity. And in wind energy, the country’s continental land area has a potential of 25 gigawatts. And in La Guajira alone there is a potential of 18 gigawatts. That means most of that potential is in La Guajira."
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Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira, Colombia – 7 February 2025
3. Various more aerials of wind turbines operating on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela ++MUTE++
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Bogota – 18 February 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Nieves, founder of Colombian Offshore Wind Research Network:
"The problem in La Guajira is that it’s a very poor region with a high rate of unmet basic needs and the most potential for these projects is located in Indigenous reservations that are sacred or constitutionally protected areas belonging to the Wayuu community which is the largest Indigenous group in Colombia. So any activity to be developed in their territories must have a prior consultation and the prior informed consent of these communities."
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Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia – 5 February 2025
5. Various aerials of settlement of Indigenous Wayuu and Venezuelan migrants in the outskirts of Maicao ++MUTE++
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Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira, Colombia – 7 February 2025
6. Various of members of the Indigenous Wayuu community Zoyla Velasquez and her family visiting the graves of their ancestors near a wind farm
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Zoyla Velasquez, Indigenous Wayuu community member:
"Those (wind turbines) are too close to our Wayuu cemetery. We fear that, over time… you know that underground energy can eventually damage this cemetery becuase they’re too close. Plus they (companies) don’t want to give us a share (of benefits.)"
8. Velasquez and her family visiting graves with wind farm on the background
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Zoyla Velasquez, Indigenous Wayuu community member:
"Companies take advantage of the Wayuu’s nobility."
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Mayapo, La Guajira, Colombia – 6 February 2025
10. Various aerials of boats along the coast of Mayapo ++MUTE++
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Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira, Colombia – 7 February 2025
11. Various of fishermen catching fish in Cabo de la Vela
12. Close fish on cage
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Aaron Laguna Ipuana, fisherman:
"The government says: nobody owns the sun or the air. That’s true. But they’re harming us. How does this benefit us? We are Colombians but we’re in a state of abandonment."
14. Laguna Ipuana on boat at sunset
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Bogota – 18 February 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Nieves, founder of Colombian Offshore Wind Research Network:
"What has happened in the last 20 years in Colombia in terms of wind energy and in La Guajira? Well, only three wind farms have been built, one of which is being dismantled as I was saying, while for example in other countries, such as Brazil, a thousand wind farms have been built."
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Mayapo, La Guajira, Colombia – 6 February 2025
16. Fishermen on boat on the coast of Mayapo
17. Various of woman cleaning fish on the beach
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Bogota – 18 February 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Margarita Nieves, founder of Colombian Offshore Wind Research Network:
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