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"17 years of political inaction" ... This is the beginning of the statement of the purple formation in which he recalls that since the end of 2001, when the industrial activity of Potasas y Derivados was completed in El Hondón, no one demanded the decontamination of the polluting company, nobody enforced the legal principle that "whoever pollutes pays", neither the successive regional governments of the PP, nor those of the City of Cartagena.
But they did intend to put them at the service of urban speculation with projects that included the construction of more than 5,000 homes, projects that were frustrated when the CSN began to recommend the construction of a perimeter fence of all the contaminated land, and the preparation of decontamination projects.
For Podemos, neither the requirements of the CSN, nor the demands of the neighbors, nor the "tug of the ears" of the Ombudsman, both the City Council and the Autonomous Community, have had an effect so that what is done must be done.
For the municipal group the most serious thing is that the urgent measures of protection of the environment and the health of the people are not carried out: provisional and precautionary measures that both the Ombudsman and the UPCT require, such as the construction of the fence, not to intervene with groundwater since they are highly contaminated and cover the land completely.
These measures are what we can ask the City Council, through a motion that will also be presented at the Congress of Deputies and the Regional Assembly, through its deputies Javier Sánchez Serna and Andrés Pedreño respectively.
In this motion, the purple formation will also include urging the CARM to declare the land of El Hondón as contaminated land, as well as the implementation of a complete and updated epidemiological study to the population of the area, so that it is discarded the impact of pollution on the health of the residents of Cartagena.
In this sense, CTSSP-PODEMOS recalls that there are already worrying reports on childhood cancer, prepared by the Arrixaca Environmental Health Unit (in collaboration with the UPCT and the Carlos III Health Institute).
Regarding the state scope, Podemos will register a Proposition No of Law (PNL), in which it will be requested that the Nuclear Energy Law and the Royal Decree on soils contaminated with radioactivity be approved urgently, which are currently in processing by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, which will facilitate the implementation of the pertinent and necessary actions for the declaration of the lands affected by radioactive contamination.
Likewise, Serna will demand in its proposal the request to the CSN to present the radiological studies of the lands of the Hondón, after being declared as one of the 6 soils in Spain contaminated with radioactivity, with the presence of uranium 238, and that the risks for the population and the environment, a request that Ecologists in Action has also formulated.
Also highlight from Podemos Cartagena, among all the requests that will be made, not to initiate by the Ministry of Development, any action in the grounds of the Hondón, involving burial works that may affect the ponds of pyrites and phosphogypsums, for the arrival of the AVE in Cartagena, until the conclusive reports of the CSN regarding its impact by radioactivity are known, and the way to proceed with its decontamination, due to its transcendence and involvement in the current political agenda, which would affect the final project selected for the arrival the AVE the city of Cartagena.
From the training purple also announce that this week will record a complaint in the Office of the Prosecutor, demanding omission conduct consisting of the non-performance of mandatory inspections subject to the provisions of the Environmental Administrative Law, giving rise to a serious environmental damage, and people's health.
In addition, they will also denounce the City Council for being the owner of part of the land for many years, and as a possessor, not subsidiary to its decontamination.
To finish, also from the municipal group, and in the form of a motion to the Plenary, the Local Government will be asked that in the progress and development of the new General Plan contemplate the lands of Hondón as contaminated soils subject to the suspension of the enforceability of building rights and other land use in the event of being incompatible with the cleaning and recovery measures of the land that are established, until they are carried out or the land is declared as uncontaminated, as the Ombudsman asked in his report of November 2017.
Source: CTSSP
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