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The representatives of neighborhood associations and environmentalists have gathered this morning in Madrid with Pablo Saavedra Inaraja, Director General of the Sustainability of the Coast and the Ocean, to see first hand how the regeneration of Portman Bay is located.
It would have conveyed frustration with the cessation of the draft environmental adaptation Bay, passed in 2011 with the consensus of the three administrations and social agents and multi-annual budgetary appropriation committed and the failure to call the Commission Monitoring and lack of participation of social actors in the past two years.
The Department of Sustainability of the Coast and Sea has been recognized as a fundamental reason that has not been executed so far approved the project in 2011, the absence of public suffered budget cuts in his department.
Despite the lack of such budget cuts, the director has confirmed that they were about to get a first phase contract amounting to 35 million euros, in order to execute that beyond.
However, to show the proposal from several companies to exploit minerals between the sterile Portman Bay, has opted for the suspension of bidding procedures for the project and approved, to subordinate it to the new proposal that perform these companies private.
With this alternative, the Board may not process EU funding for the project, as it is a private initiative.
The Director General has confirmed that the firm produced dealership contest award public maritime terrestrial (MTPD) of the bay, if it is declared by the Autonomous Community as unnatural mining resource, Type B, will be limited at first phase project to run exclusively on the terms of the DIA approved on 3 years and assuming that the cost of environmental restoration.
The variations on the same, as regards the exploitation of minerals, must be approved by the General Directorate of Environmental Quality.
Second, a possible extension of the project to the rest of the bay, as claimed by businesses, the coastline in front of 1957 and plunged off the surfline current Portman Bay, in any case require- - a new project and process of EIA, including consultation and assessment of possible impacts to the Natura 2000 network to the EU.
If deque project feasibility was not economically feasible and / or environmentally, the ministry would have to go back to square one and recover the initial project, with the consequent search for the funding and delay of more years in the environmental recovery of Bay.
Representatives of organizations positively the conclusion of the meeting and the climate of dialogue and respect for the contributions we make from the whole neighborhood, social and environmental organizations.
In this sense they have called the Director General to the Monitoring Committee recovers rather than merely maintaining a meeting between the three administrations, and that the participation of organizations in the steps taken in this process enables open again.
They have also claimed that a specific item for Portman, as evidence of the commitment of the Ministry keeps to carry out the project.
Also, calling the Regional Administration and Local maintain that same attitude of respect and openness to the participation of organizations, accessing, first applied to hold the meetings.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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