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Ecologists in Action has made an action simbóloca protest this morning in Cartagena, as part of its report Banderas Newgren 2009.
In this case the objective has been the headquarters of the Port Authority of Cartagena by macropuerto unsustainable container project in the Bay of El Gorguel, which this year received a black flag .*
PORT OF THE Gorguel: ecological and economic disaster
President of the Port Authority of Cartagena, Adrian Angel Viudes from Ecologists in Action we pass this letter to inform you that the environmental effects the project result in a Container Terminal at El Gorguel with dubious economic justification and a major ecological impact, will be a drag so punished more for the coast of Murcia.
This is the reason for Ecologists in Action has decided to stop him daily activity to rethink the project and make known to all and in detail the pros and cons of the implementation.
Ecologists in Action has decided to close the gates of the Port Authority building in the Plaza of Heroes of Cavite in Cartagena, because the enormous ecological and cultural impacts will the new port infrastructure in Sierra Minera Gorguel will make a short-medium term future is a burden for all citizens of the Sierra de Cartagena.
This project puts at risk the possible development of the Bay and the village of Portman, as the visual impact and therefore the possible pollution caused by ship traffic would make it harder for the adequacy of the Bay, both projects are not compatible .
The report by international consultancy Hamburg Port Consulting collects the status of container traffic routes in the Mediterranean, making a survey by the year 2020, but does not include traffic data that Spanish companies could be generated by taking their products macropuerto containers from the future.
This project would cost approximately 1,400 million euros, according to recent data, of which 40% come from private contributions, and the remaining equity in the majority come from the sale of the land they occupy the docks of St. Lucia and the ability to borrow from the European Investment Bank.
This refers to its claim of making the port of Cartagena on the basis for the cruise companies, for what was to build a passenger terminal and an exclusive berth, so that the container terminal and multi terminal should go to Gorguel, not to mention the arrangements with the hotel companies in the area, but forgetting the total opposition of social groups and environmental organizations against the construction of Macropuerto.
The rationale for the development of this project is, according to the Port Authority, the increased traffic of this type in the Port of Cartagena and be a good location due to its geographical position for trade with the countries bordering the western Mediterranean and northern Africa.
Do not forget that emerged from the coastal area is part of Natura 2000, and although there are funds for the barren colmated miners, not the case with extending westward.
La Sierra de la Fausilla, which houses the Gorguel, is declared as SCI and SPA, and the creation of the terminal link up with the Valley of tailings, according to the scale of land already in his day meant the creation of the refinery and its subsequent expansion.
It is said that a project is technically viable and economically profitable, but losses ecological, geological and natural heritage make this project a further aberration in the Murcia coast, no other justification than the development regardless.
What is not organic, it is not economical.
Ecologists in Action
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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