The Council of Ministers has authorized the hiring of the regeneration project and environmental soundness of Portman Bay, worth 59.5 million euros, based on an environmental impact statement adopted on February 10, 2011 by the Ministry of State for Climate Change, which renders the doubts already raised at the time by United Left-Greens, Neighborhood Association Portman, La Sierra Minera Foundation and environmental organizations on the suitability of the project for the restoration of their environmental values.
The project that has been unchanged since 2011, still contemplate a solution for the restoration of the natural environment around Bay Portam found bordering protected areas of the Natura 2000 network such as Sites of Community Interest in Submerged coastal strip of the Region of Murcia, Calblanque Natural Park, Mount of Ashes and Rock of the Eagle and the Special Bird Protection Zone of the surrounding Sierra de la Fausilla, does not provide efficient solutions to prevent dumping at sea leaching of tailings were deposited on the edge of the bay, nor the full recovery of the old Playa Portman nor the recovery of their traditional uses arises.
United Left-Greens claim echoes the Spanish Institute of Oceanography is done so that biological tests are made in the area and provide updated studies on the levels of contamination in biota found data.
Finally say that United Left-Greens unacceptable that within the Monitoring Committee does not have any working group established to have oversight and participation Portman Neighborhood Association, the Sierra Minera Foundation, or associations Southeastern Association of Naturalists and Ecologists in Action.
Source: IURM