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The purple formation regrets that the preventive level of contamination due to the air quality in Escombreras is activated when the same company has not yet finished cleaning the disaster of the ravine of El Charco

We can Cartagena, through Pilar Marcos, has again asked the City Council and the Autonomous Community to implement the necessary measures to curb environmental pollution in Cartagena, after learning that this Friday has activated level 1 (preventive) of the Framework Protocol of contamination due to the exceeding of the daily limit value of PM10 particles in the Escombreras Valley.

Marcos recalled that his group has been insisting again and again that Cartagena has to face this serious problem that can not be denied, and that this is done with measures already known to all: "It is not about inventing anything new, but about making what has been working in other places with similar problems: require companies to mitigate their emissions, promote public transport, prioritize the bicycle on the car, increase the number of pollutants that are measured, inform the population at all times. But this can only be done if the Government realizes that nobody is taking care of us, and that in Cartagena we need a Department of Health and Environment with sufficient resources and our own staff.

That's what Cartagena is about. "

Marcos has also requested compensatory measures for the municipality to have one of the 10 most polluting companies in Spain, which pollutes by land, sea and air, with the corresponding impact on public health and the environment: "Pollution can not go free.

In Cartagena we have a life expectancy below the average.

Rates of cancer that triple the numbers of the Region.

Radioactivity, heavy metals, asbestos, herbicides.

Are we going to continue in this way?

Are we forced to choose to die of hunger or die poisoned?

We believe that things can be done differently: Cartagena needs a real industrial reconversion that is committed to the sustainability and care of our natural resources, "said Pilar Marcos, candidate for City Hall.

The purple formation, finally, insisted again that the City must take the lead in this problem and demand from the Autonomous Community many of the actions that are pending to be carried out: Epidemiological studies to the populations closest to the industrial poles;

the total renovation and expansion of the regional network of air quality measuring stations (which is obsolete, malfunctions and throws unrealistic values ​​by the location of some of its booths), in addition to the creation of a municipal network, which was disassembled years ago and whose action was an outrage to the public health of Cartagena and Cartagena.

Source: CTSSP