In Galicia (just north of Portugal) we produce a great deal of Spanish electricity, from both renewable and carbon fossil resources. We bear landscape degradati

In Galicia (just north of Portugal) we produce a great deal of Spanish electricity, from both renewable and carbon fossil resources. We bear landscape degradation, health issues, and unreasonable risks (we have a gas unloading plant too close to a city). Yet most energy companies pay their taxes in Madrid. To add insult to injury, electricity service here has bad coverage and is unreliable in small towns (of which there are many over here; Galicia has about 8% of Spanish population, but over 50% of municipalities). I see wind turbines everywhere I look in the mountains around, but I'll have blackouts in winter if there is --ironically enough-- too much wind. I can see how those folks at Alto Minho and Alentejo feel about their environment being raped to provide electricity to Lisbon without getting any much compensation. We could use a lot more consideration for externalities. There is a mountain range at the north of Madrid, but you won't see wind turbines there because they'd spoil their landscape. It's better to spoil much more valuable landscapes and ecosystems a few hundred miles northwest, then dissipate a significant share of that energy in transport.