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Carmina Fernández says that the regional administration has the legal instruments to demand the decontamination of the causes of contaminated soils, and recalls that for 25 years, the PP Government has not exercised this competence due to intentional negligence or negligence

The deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group Carmina Fernández has presented a motion in the Assembly to demand that the regional government urgently adopt, once and for all, the necessary measures for the decontamination of the soils of the Sierra Minera de Cartagena and La Union.

"The regional administration has legal instruments to demand the causes of pollution, immediate decontamination and restoration of contaminated soils," he explained.

"And that in case they do not do so, it must be the regional government that proceeds to decontaminate, but on behalf of the offenders. And also, that coercive fines be imposed on those offenders who have failed to comply with their obligation to decontaminate," has added.

Carmina Fernández recalled that the Sierra Minera of Cartagena and La Unión has a serious problem of contamination by residues derived from mining activity.

"The surveillance, control and sanction of this contamination is the direct competence of the Autonomous Community".

He has indicated that for 25 years, the PP Government has not exercised this competence due to intentional neglect or negligence.

"At this point, what is clear is that the lack of action of the regional Executive during this time has harmed the environment and people's health."

"And it is also clear, from the studies we have learned from the UPCT, that the contamination of the Sierra Minera has reached, through the waterways, the Mar Menor," he explained.

Finally, he stressed that the Ministry of Ecological Transition is fulfilling its responsibility, since it has commissioned the necessary studies to know the reality of what is its competence, which are the channels of the ramblas, and has defined reforestation actions, bars vegetables, stabilization and inertization in them.

Source: PSRM-PSOE