The Socialists have filed a Motion for the annual plan for state funding Regeneration Project Portman Bay be entered again in 2015 PGE, given the uncertainty generated by the performance of the company Aria.
The Socialist motion notes that since January 2006 in the Convention between the three public administrations involved, state, regional and local levels for the Regeneration of Portman Bay, was signed have been taking steps slowly but surely to take fruition the project: competition of ideas, development of the selected project, establishment and operation of a monitoring committee, involve neighbors and coastal defense organizations, the environment and nature, etc ... All this to achieve the greatest degree of consensus on the development of a complex process of regeneration, which should also be an example to solve a major environmental problem-medium and regeneration of an area highly degraded by intensive mining.
Thus, after overcoming the project the process of environmental impact statement, the 22nd September 2011, the Official Gazette published Resolution of the Department of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea by which it was announced by the Government Socialist bidding works contract "Draft regeneration and environmental adaptation of Portman Bay, municipality of La Unión (Murcia)" amounting to 79,402,304.42 euros, and an execution period of 36 months.
They add that the socialist "when all or the major pitfalls seemed overcome, and upon arrival in the national government of the PP, a paralysis of the project under various justifications and incredible occurs, known to all (annulment of the bidding process of course loss of documentation, budgetary slippage, dividing the project into two phases, etc ...). it is allowed to convene the monitoring committee, and so we come to January 2014 in which we are told that a German Spanish consortium Acciona Aria, (the first never heard from again), it offered to "clean" the Bay in exchange for taking for themselves and sell the metals in the mining waste that clog decades. was then chooses to "leave "public project, which had enjoyed broad political, social and technical consensus, and" embraced "a private project, which since its inception has been raising doubts at all levels: neighborhood, technical, administrative, environmental and economic. "
Socialist spokesman Oliver Mariano, noted that "The last few months have been witnessing a cascade stunned news who are sowing doubts the viability of the action that is intended to implement the company Aria, namely incorporation of a local company with a minimum capital, alleged insolvency of the German parent company, large debts and unpaid local suppliers by Aria, and need to submit a new declaration of medium-environmental impact the project really intends to execute the said concessionaire ".
In this situation Oliver noted that "regardless of whether the company or not Aria meets its commitments and obligations, from our town can not stand by and waiting for events, but we must anticipate them and require the state administration in PGE 2015 timely budget allocation for the so-called "Draft regeneration and environmental adaptation of Portman Bay, municipality of La Unión (Murcia)" is collected, as was contained in his day, in order to prevent, if the concessionaire Aria fail to meet their commitments and had to declare the bidding for the concession to operate the existing mineral resources in Portman Bay, could run that project from the Administration, the way it was originally approved, thereby preventing the damage that would cause a major new setback for the long-awaited performance. "
Source: PSOE La Unión