The Ministry of Environment is finalizing finalize the last details that will allow public tender, at short notice, the administrative concession under which they are to carry out reclamation works Portman Bay.
So it has personally assured the Director General of Coasts, Pablo Saavedra, our Mayor, Francisco Bernabé, the meeting that both have held in Madrid at the headquarters of the Ministry and also attended by Deputy Speaker of National Infrastructures Party in the Congress of Deputies, Andres Ayala, and the Deputy Director General of Coasts, Angel Munoz.
As explained Bernabé, this project, "in a context of economic crisis and major budgetary constraints, will allow to carry out, without any cost to the public purse, an important work of environmental regeneration by marketing, by resulting company dealership, iron minerals (magnetite and siderite) that are buried in the sterile drown Portman Bay ".
Also, the mayor of The Union pointed out that the implementation of the project, "besides not cost you a penny to citizens, will involve the total regeneration of the Bay, and only partially, as was initially contemplated" .
This project will dredge all existing sterile up to the funds already native to coastal line of 1957 (the date on which they began discharges), removing them entirely, "the balance being a historic debt of environmental with the Region of Murcia, "said the mayor.
In addition, Barnabas has emphasized the enormous positive economic impact in the short term will involve the implementation of an initiative of this scale for creation of hundreds of jobs directly and indirectly, "what will certainly be a huge respite for as a region hit by the strike ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión