IU-Green has filed a request for information in the Regional Assembly by requesting the Minister of the Presidency, Manuel Campos, give explanations on Fulsan quarry activity in Alhama de Murcia, and the damage caused by it in a protected space.
The formation of the left has made this initiative shortly after the Southeastern Association of Naturalists (Anse) denounced that the new head of the quarry is in the conservation area supports Regional Park El Valle-Carrascoy.
As explained in a statement Anse, expansion would have been made regardless of the work plan approved by the Directorate General of Mines and without making appropriate evaluation of impact on the Natura 2000 network, affecting an area where mining is prohibited .
The Head of Environment IU-Greens in the Region of Murcia, Victoria Rodriguez, stated that since 2004 are producing "alleged irregularities" stemming from the acceleration of the work of the quarry in the natural park, which has motivated the complaints from environmental groups.
Rodriguez noted that, in this situation, regional and municipal administrations, the city of Alhama, have shown a "great neglect and passivity", and did not start the required sanctioning process to the company operating the quarry.
"If an emblematic space and has numerous forms of protection, both community and regional environmental suffered an attack as visible as this, it will not be with places that do not have that support," he lamented.
He has also criticized that "many" of the 20 natural areas that were declared protected by law 4/92 do not yet have an effective instrument to protect them, which is Plan Natural Resources Management, as For that park.
Source: IURM