In early April the conservation director of SEO / Birdlife, Juan Carlos Atienza , dropped a couple of very interesting ideas on Twitter regarding the regional elections of May 22. In the middle of election campaign, Atienza stressed that "none of the PP and PSOE candidates talk about the environment," even though "90% of conservation is the responsibility of the Autonomous Communities." I was inspired by Juan Carlos, and raised the following the many environmental journalists who follow him on twitter: Proposal for environmental journalists: making a table with promises, achievements and disasters of the regional governments on environmental matters " .
automatically thought it was a great idea for the blog and started searching for information. I soon realized that carrying out the proposal in its entirety was a chore, so I decided to focus on the third point: the disasters of the regional governments on environmental matters. After finishing the tests I've put serious about this, and I publish this entry taking advantage of the start of the campaign, which for the moment the environment is being undoubtedly the most overlooked.
I have included a single Autonomous environmental disaster in the elections held this May 22, adding that since the parties are responsible regional power or support it. It does not mean they are the only, nor the most serious, but those that I find most remarkable among the various environmental abuses of our regional governments. The outlook is bleak: contempt for the tremendous value of natural areas and biodiversity laws are made as of private urban interests, overriding the environment, total impunity for attacks on environmental laws, which are considered mere obstacles to avoid, a misunderstanding development that threatens our remaining natural spaces ...
Although they love to get the label of "sustainable" when the truth degree of contempt for environment with our politicians is unprecedented. Again and again justice vindicates environmentalists and scientists in their reports (as pointed the magazine's editorial Quercus this month), but almost always too late. I hope that someday society aware of the true value of preserving nature and, consequently, political stop getting electoral gains for contributing to its destruction.
Aragon - Biscarrués Reservoir
The Aragon Government intends to build a dam across the river to irrigate the Monegros Gallego, a project that has the support of the irrigators and almost all politicians Aragon. The reservoir would destroy a section of the river Gallego (Huesca) high environmental and scenic value, with a thriving tourism sector and rural asset depends on the Whitewater River. A report by the CEDEX (Centre for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works) rejected the Environmental Impact Study submitted by the Government of Aragon on the grounds that "the project in question has very significant impacts on the environment, scientists EPORTS i developed by SEO / Birdlife and the New Water Culture Foundation also believe that the reservoir is not feasible. The Ministry of Environment, which has to decide soon on the environmental impact statement of the project, is getting a lot of pressure from politicians and the Aragonese for irrigation of green light to the construction of the dam.
guilty parties / accomplices PSOE-PAR, PP, I zquierda United .
More information: Biscarrués, the irresponsibility of our heads.
Asturias - high tension line-Lada Velilla
The English Government, with the help of Red Electrica of Spain, wants to begin immediately the construction of a huge power line between Asturias and Leon through some of the last unspoiled natural areas the Cantabrian Mountains. The layout designed by REE go from Lada (in Langreo) to Velilla del Río Carrión (Palencia), and along its 120 km long will be built about 300 high-tension towers 51 meters high, the equivalent of a building 17 floors. The project has generated a great social rejection both in Asturias and León, but REE and Asturias argue that it is essential to ensure power supply in the region. Those who oppose the power line argue that this argument is completely false, is not impaired the power of Asturias, and the impact of this massive infrastructure on the territory would be brutal.
guilty parties / accomplices PSOE
More information: Is it necessary Lada-Velilla power line?
Baleares - Golf Son Bosc
Son Bosc is a wetland of high ecological value adjacent to the Natural Park of Albufera de Mallorca who actually served on the Park Natural before the then Government of the Balearic CP withdrew his protection in 2003 to build a golf course. The current PSOE minority Govern-Bloc per Mallorca said last February as SPAs Son Bosc and the intention to include it in the Albufera Natural Park, as requested Ramsar Convention, although PP and Mallorquina Unió it is getting hard in Parliament , approving such a legislative initiative to declare the golf course as a project of regional interest. The Government has not yet been completely paralyze the works, and if to this we add the almost certain victory of the PP on May 22, the destruction of Son Bosc seems inevitable.
guilty parties / accomplices Mallorquina Unió PP.
More information: Son Bosc, Parc Natural
Canary Islands - Endangered Species List
In May 2010, Parliament approved Canario, with the votes of Canary Coalition and PP, a new Endangered Species List, which reduced the status of 290 species protection and fully deprotected 29. The unstated objective of the catalog was to give free rein to projects like the Port of Granadilla, in the south of Tenerife, whose construction was at a standstill on its serious impact on one of the best around Canary Sebadales la seba happened to be in danger extinction to be removed from the catalog. Conservationists and scientists opposed Canary Catalog by considering an attack on biodiversity, made without any scientific basis, only politically and economically.
guilty parties / accessories: PP and Canary Coalition.
More information: The fight against the destruction of biodiversity is still alive Canary
Cantabria - Road Oyambre
dune systems, wetlands, woodlands and cliffs between the Ria de San Vicente and the Rabies form Oyambre Natural Park, one of the best preserved sections of the coast of Cantabria. The Government of Cantabria, with support from the mayors of the area, was proposed a work on improving the CA-236, the call Oyambre Road. The opposition from environmental organizations the work has been complete, they report that destroyed a marsh declared a Site of Community Interest in the Natura 2000 network, and " favors the private interests of golf course that is located in the vicinity by attempting to consolidate a sport in a place that, according to recent and definitive statement, must be restored to natural state it was in the dune system that holds today. " President of Cantabria, Miguel Angel Revilla, opened in February this year the new road, but two sections that were stalled by court order as a precautionary measure due to environmental complaints. However, Revilla said at the opening that "the road is greener than before."
guilty parties / accessories: Regionalist Party of Cantabria.
More information: road works Oyambre continue despite complaints from environmentalists
Castilla La Mancha - Ciudad Real Airport
Airport Ciudad Real is a perfect example of the irrational real estate speculation that this country lived before the housing bubble burst, one of the many airports unemployed (Castellón, Huesca, Lleida ...) we have in Spain, big, expensive and unnecessary infrastructure . From the environmental point of view the case from the international airport Ciudad Real is particularly bloody, built on an IBA and SPA of steppe birds, was the worst choice of all the raised, so SEO / Birdlife took pains in the fight against the project, causing a delay of eight years to construction. But the Junta de Castilla La Mancha was committed to building an international airport here has proven to be totally unnecessary, with an average of twice daily. Of course, after costing 1,100 million euros (400 Caja Castilla La Mancha), and destroy an area of \u200b\u200bhigh ecological value. Now nobody knows what to do with the new international airport opened in 2008, but as always the damage is done.
More information: Blog SEO / Birdlife on the airport.
Castilla y León - Ski resort of San Glorio
Situated between the Park Regional Picos de Europa (León) and Parque Natural de Fuentes Carrionas and Source of Copper Mountain Palencia (Palencia), the port of San Glorio is one of the last remnants of brown bears in the Cantabrian Mountains. Three Provinces SA The company has since 2000 trying to build a ski resort there with the support of politicians castellanoleonesa, but have not had much luck in court, as the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León and has knocked down several times Board attempts to change environmental regulations and allow construction of the resort. Included in a list of the journal Nature and The Guardian as one of the 26 greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide, the project is rejected by environmentalists and scientists, but with the support of politicians and the local population. This year the Junta de Castilla y Leon has once again changed the law to give free rein to the station, so that the survival of this valuable natural area remains far from secure.
guilty parties / accessories: PP, PSOE, Unión del Pueblo Leones.
More: Skiing in San Glorio a political attack against biodiversity
Valencia - Act parany
The parany is a method traditional hunting north of the Valencian Community is the use of links (adhesives) to catch birds, remember that the use of glue to catch birds is banned by the EU Birds Directive. It is a technical fighter and non-selective mass each year kills hundreds of thousands of protected birds and for this reason the parany has been declared illegal by many courts since 2002, the High Court of Justice of Valencia, the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Still, the Valencian Government supports parany hunters, and the Valencian Parliament in October 2009 approved an amendment to the Hunting Act that legally protected this harmful practice. The Council of Ministers decided to use this law before the Constitutional Court, which temporarily suspended its use until sentencing. "I will stand alongside the paranyers " said the Minister for the Environment Valencian, and support is felt, as the environmentalists claim that the surveillance of hunters is practically nonexistent.
guilty parties / accomplices PP, PSPV, Bloc .
More information: The Generalitat Valenciana authorizes a form of hunting outlawed
Madrid - M-501, the road from the marshes
The splitting of twenty kilometers from the M-501 between Quijorna and Navas del Rey was one of the flagship projects of Hope Aguirre, for which he had the support of the mayors of the area, including the Socialists. The layout of the road that would affect an SPA Aguirre (Holm of Cofio rivers and Alberche), a natural area of \u200b\u200bgreat ecological value protected by the European Union. The Government of Maria Dolores Aguirre-Cospedal as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, decided that the work of "public interest" by the allegedly high accident rate, in order to bypass compulsory prior environmental impact statement, and also skipped the consultations for the European Union for the condition to an area of \u200b\u200bthe Natura 2000 network. In February 2008, with work already well advanced, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid declared invalid the split, but the government appealed to the Supreme Aguirre as he continued to work at top speed. This year the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of environmentalists and has confirmed that the split was illegal , but the damage is done. The Government of the Community has downplayed the ruling and Aguirre has promised that if he wins the elections will be dual carriageway to Ávila.
guilty parties / accessories: PP
More information: The M-501 or how the PP in Madrid hates environmental legislation
Extremadura - Urbanización Marina Island Valdecañas
The tourist macrocomplex "Valdecañas Island Marina" is located on an island Valdecañas Reservoir (Cáceres), 160 kilometers from Madrid, a natural space that belongs to the Natura 2000 and declared SPAs and SCIs (Place Community Interest) by the European Union. L to Extremadura in 2007 approved a decree to build on the Isle of Valdecañas macrocomplex declaring tourism (two hotels, 200 luxury villas, golf course and marina) Regional Interest Project (IRP). Ecologists in Action then began a fight in the courts that ended in March this year when the High Court Extremadura ruled in favor of environmentalists on the grounds that the development does not have the conditions necessary for PIR, and ordered its demolition, as the works had already begun. The Board announced it would appeal to the Supreme, and a few days after Parliament passed in Extremadura, with the support of the PP- an amendment to the Land Law and Land in Extremadura to allow construction in protected areas undevelopable . The future of Valdecañas Island Marina is in the air, and meanwhile, it has become clear contempt for politicians Extremadura for its natural areas.
guilty parties / accomplices PSOE and PP.
More information: Extremadura legislation to save a development in a natural
Murcia - Marina de Cope
In 2001 Murcia Government decided amend the Land Act in the region to check out 11,000 hectares of unspoilt coastline with a view to its development. Among the unprotected territory was Marina de Cope, part of the Regional Park of Cabo de Cope-Tips Calnegre, with eight priority habitats for the European Union and therefore a very important ecological value. Marina de Cope, located between the towns of Lorca and Aguilas, Murcia government wanted to build an urban macrocomplex, "The biggest resort in Europe" as its slogan. The opposition parties Murcia (PSOE and IU) and all environmental organizations have opposed this project for being "a disaster organic ". The destruction of this valuable natural area seems inevitable, since the project has survived the bursting of the housing bubble and the Regional Executive is delighted to perpetuate the model predator and unsustainable urban development that have already devastated much of the coast of Murcia .
guilty parties / accessories: PP
More information: what I think Cope Marine
Navarra - open pit mine Irati
The conservation organization SEO / Birdlife included among the ten worst actions against biodiversity 2010 the project of opening a magnesite mine open pit near the Irati Forest. Environmentalists denounced the mine significantly affect an area declared a Special Area of \u200b\u200bConservation (SAC) by the European Union, Mount Alduides, whose management plan prohibits mining. Magna mining company has the support of the Government of Navarre to exploit this vein of magnesite in a beech forest that is home to endangered species (such as woodpecker ), and justify their environmental impact would be arguing that the only way maintain the 170 jobs generated by the company. SEO / Birdlife, however, calls these jobs are held through the company's industrial restructuring magna, and not at the expense of destroying the environmental values \u200b\u200bof the Monte Alduides. Social opposition to the mine is remarkably of 1,600 claims against it, and in September de 2010 SEO/Birdlife anunció que recurriría ante todas las instancias judiciales necesarias para evitar que se lleve a cabo del proyecto.
Partidos culpables/cómplices: UPN
Más información: Blog "ZEC Monte Alduide", del grupo local de SEO/Birdlife Donostia.
La Rioja - Talas black pine in the Sierra Onion
The Collective Ecologist Rioja (CER) denounced at No. 301, the magazine Quercus logging indiscriminate black pine mountain, one of the two last remaining native species in the Iberian Peninsula out of the Pyrenees, the Parque Natural de Sierra Onion. The Department of the Environment of La Rioja said that logging, they discovered in December 2010 a group of hikers, was intended to "encourage partridge habitat, endangered species species, and prevent forest fires. "Instead, environmentalists argue that the pines, one of the botanical jewels of La Rioja, were felled by hunting interests exclusively, as they were in the vicinity of a line of posts dove hunting .
guilty parties / accessories: PP
More information: Rioja Mountaineers denounce the indiscriminate felling of black pine in the Sierra Cebollera.
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