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The Socialist parliamentary group calls for the appearance in the Assembly the Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, to explain why he has not been charged yet Portman Golf Company public money used for the elimination of Jenny Balsa.

The regional deputy Rosique Teresa said that "what has not yet explained is why the regional government in 2001 accepted the free gift that raft contaminated and included in the list of assets of the Autonomous Community, thus assuming that removing the contaminant balsa end up paying for with public money, including funds from the European Union. "

For the Socialist Party that showed that the regional government, when he accepted "this gift did not intend to charge the owner of Jenny Balsa the cost of disposal."

Anti-Corruption Prosecutor

Rosique recalled that the regional government did not learn until early 2007 that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor had opened an investigation into these proceedings.

Thereafter, the regional government began to publicly say that the work of removing the raft Jenny had been paid with public money, "but that he would pass the bill Portman Golf Company, owner of the same order to deliver the Law waste which states that the polluter pays.

And she testified before the anti-corruption prosecutor. "

In October 2009, two years after the regional government said it would charge the company Portman Golf the cost of these works, and socialist MEP question inquiring about whether the cash payment was made, the Department responded in writing that "had difficulty bill Portman Golf 5.4 million euros it took the elimination of Balsa Jenny, and that under Article 27 of Law 10/1998 on Waste, responsible for paying the owners of that raft."

According to the Ministry itself said the difficulty was that the Autonomous Community had to be declared, defined and have taken an inventory of contaminated soils, which do not start processing until 2005.

"It falls under its own weight"

To Rosique, the Department's response "falls under its own weight, because if that land had not been declared as contaminated, would not have been included in the list of contaminated soils and could not qualify for the program for the disposal of contaminated soils Ministry of Environment, with funding in part was carried out by European funds.

Subsequent to that response and late 2009, Rep. appear at the Counseling and was able to verify, in view of the record, that the Ministry was still studying how to charge the company Portman Golf that invoice.

The deputy concluded that the regional government must explain to the Assembly of everything that happened with this issue.

"The Minister of Agriculture and Water should explain why three years after it announced it would require the payment to the company Portman Golf, has not yet cashed this payment."

Source: PSRM-PSOE