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The Minister for the Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, has officially announced today that the administrative concession under which it will carry out the regeneration of Portman Bay hiring going out immediately, all through appropriate competition groups to be convened for that purpose by the Department of Sustainability of the Coast and Sea
The announcement was made within the Monitoring Committee of this project, which was held this morning in Madrid and has, in addition to the Minister counted with the presence of the President of the Region of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel and the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, in his condition, respectively, of senior representatives from each of the three administrations involved in the activities, which have in turn been accompanied by various senior positions thereof.
Prior to the ministerial announcement by President Valcárcel has been reported that the Directorate General of Mines of our region has proceeded to declare the existence of a mineral resource of section B in the Bay, that is, to manifest there is still a significant amount of iron ore between sterile deposited within the Bay, prerequisite and necessary that the Ministry you could call the administrative concession that will bring the execution of the work of regeneration.
In this sense, by the Ministry of Environment indicated that the contest for the convening will allow award performance to a dealer in return be interested authorized the sale of mineral quoted iron-magnetite and siderite-once extracted, held on Portman regeneration project at zero cost to the public purse.
Forecasts that manages the Government of the Nation, in the words of Arias Cañete, is that the ministerial order to convene the contest to be given in the next few days, so that in early April the same to be published in the Official Gazette .
Once submitted bids for the companies concerned, and after due inquiry and scales of the same, the intention of the Ministry you is that this summer may be awarded the administrative concession in order that the works should commence in late 2014.
Finally, the head of the Environment wanted to thank the work of all managers and public officials who have worked on the project, including the work of the President Valcárcel, and most especially, the Mayor of La Union, "whose constant dedication to the project has saved all the difficulties that have arisen, which have been few ".
Our mayor, Francisco Bernabé, said the immense joy that this decision is for all citizens of the town of La Union, especially because the determination reached after long wait twenty-four years since the cessation of discharges.
To this end, he stated that "we have had to endure countless sacrifices and setbacks in this process, but eventually the illusion, faith and perseverance of which have displayed at all times is what has caused the balance has finally tilted in favor of the interests of our town. "
In this, our first mayor pointed out that "the regeneration of the Bay will not only assume settle a historical debt environmental character you have with the town, but above all, and above all else today , guaranteeing that any future work and prosperity for La Union, Portman and Roche, as will the hundreds of permanent jobs that will be necessary to carry out the work, and left a posteriori Bay in the best possible conditions for Tourist development project sustainability and high quality provided for Portman. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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