Despite The Puerto Mayor project has been paralyzed by court order after the intervention of ANSE and Greenpeacethe structures prior to the construction of the port are still standing and since the company that had to withdraw them has declared insolvent, letters must be taken in the matter, so that the situation is reversed and demonstrates what has been built.
The scarce sands that still remain in the manga of the Mar Menor house notable environmental values, among which The presence of threatened flora and endemic species stands out. A good example of this is the Esparraguera del Mar Menor (Asparagus macrorrhizus).
When 20 years are commemorating from the stoppage of the works of Puerto Mayor (La Manga. Region of Murcia) By Anse and Greenpeace activists, which took place on January 27 and 28, 2005Anse urges the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge to approve as soon as possible the environmental impact assessment of the restoration and contracting project of the works, since the insolvency of the company has recently been confirmed.
The no room. 1 of the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia resolved last December filed the request for the execution of the sentence requested by the Anse lawyer to proceed to pay for Puerto Mayor SA of reduced coasts and restoration workwhen checking the lack of funds and goods by the company, in a state of insolvency.
What will happen to Puerto Mayor?
The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court had issued providence on November 8, 2022 declaring the inadmissibility of the Cassation resource of the promoter Puerto Mayor SA, against the resolution that resolved the expiration of the concession, which had been required by ANSE since the beginning of this century.
Puerto Mayor had also been sentenced to pay the costs1,000 euros to the State Advocacy and 500 euros to each person personally, among which was the Southeast Naturalist Association (ANSE). Puerto Mayor SA had to take charge in addition to the Environmental Restoration of the dockremoving the metal tables and restoring the area affected by illegal works to return to its original state.
LTo sentence, only two pages, the magistrates argued “lack of sufficient foundation” To annul the sentence, of November 2, 2021, of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia, dismissed of PO 279/20, deduced against the resolution of the Governing Council of the Autonomous Community of the Region of the region from Murcia.
This agreed to declare the expiration of the authorization granted by agreement of the Council of Ministers, of July 4, 1975, to Puerto Mayor, SA, for the construction of a winter sports port, with Granting ownership of certain land won to the seaon the Coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the manga of the Mar Menor, municipality of San Javier and for the construction on land won to the sea in a concession regime, of an air track parallel immediately to the contradique of the port.
The demarcation of coasts in Murcia submitted public information in March 2024 corresponding environmental impact study. The resolution of this document is still pending by the Ministry.
Pedro García, director of ANSE, said that “It was sung that the company Puerto Mayor SA would not pay the restoration costs of La Caleta del Estacio for the works that the regional government chaired by Ramón Luís Valcárcel authorized illegally, as it was also assured that no one would pay their political responsibility For this abuse against the laws of protection of nature and the coast”.
As Anse already warned, the cost of environmental restoration should finally be assumed by the State by insolvency of the company, unless the Ministry will achieve through some new judicial action that empowers properties of the owners of the samealthough it seems very unlikely.
The Association, which has coordinated different projects and initiatives for the restoration of the Arenales of La Caleta del Estacio, urges the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge to expedite the approval of the day and Urgent hiring of the area’s restoration projectcontemplated in the framework of priority actions to recover from the Mar Menor, with an approximate cost of 22 million euros.
ANSE has been working uninterrupted since before 2005, with the help of Greenpeace, to first achieve the paralysis of Puertomayor works, and later for Get the environmental restoration of the Arenales of La Caleta del Estacio For responsible public use. The association has appeared in all administrative and judicial files related to this work that the Government of the Autonomous Community should never have allowed and supported.
A long and without truce
20 years have elapsed since the protest action stopping the works of one of the largest sports ports of the Western Mediterraneanjudicial and administrative decisions have ended up giving the reason to ANSE, which since the beginning of the century has been denouncing that the construction works of a macroport for 900 vessels, urbanization and other associated infrastructure in La Caleta del Estacio, in the Mediterranean aspect of the sleeve (Mar Menor. Region of Murcia), were illegal.
The argument wielded by the regional government in 2020 to agree on expiration «for the non -initiation, paralysis or not termination of the works unjustifiably», It is the same as Anse raised at the beginning of the century in his writings to the then president of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luís Valcárcel, so that he did not authorize the restart of the works.
The joint protest action carried out at the end of January 2005 by Greenpeace and ANSE volunteers, paralyzing the works for 30 hours, caused the filing of a demand by the Ministry of Environmentwhich was responsible for then to Cristina Narbonne. The judgment of said lawsuit confirmed the illegality of the works authorized by the Autonomous Community.
ANSE and Greenpeace recalled on several occasions that Puerto Mayor’s works were illegal because they were carried out according to a sports port project that was never processed and approved by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. In its day, the Puerto Mayor company had administrative concession for the construction of the sports port granted by the Council of Ministers in 1975, But said concession expired in 1988 without any work.
The Director General of Environmental Quality, Antonio Alvarado, authorized in 2003 the realization of the works of Puerto Mayor currently existing and that corresponded to a new project presented by the company in 2001, without it having approval of the Autonomous Community These facts They motivated Anse to file a complaint against Alvarado for the commission of two alleged crimes of prevarication and against natural resources and the environment before the Prosecutor’s Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Region of Murcia.
The Prosecutor’s Office made the denunciation of ANSE, which motivated the Court of Instruction No. 5 of Murcia to process Alvarado for a crime of prevarication. He General Director did not become convicted of these facts When incurring a defect of form in the processing of the judicial process.
Anse and Greenpeace presented different writings and initiatives to end definitively with the Puertomayor project and avoid the resumption of worksthe last in July 2017 against the “PRoyecto of conservation, maintenance and verification of the existing tables in the facilities of Puerto Mayor, TM de San Javier”Promoted by Puerto Mayor, SA
Anse and Greenpeace delivered 22,000 firms to support Puerto Mayor’s proposal in August 2017, urging the regional government to restorate the Play The purpose of recovering natural spaces that also They would improve the quality of life and tourism in the area, while showing their rejection of any authorization to continue the works.
The demarcation of coasts in Murcia authorized at the end of 2020 to Ase to develop an experimental performance of 2.6 hectares of surface of the sand of La Caleta del Estacio (La Manga, San Javier, Region of Murcia) affected by the works of Puerto Mayor, which is currently developing within the framework of a new project, resaling, and that constitutes an essay for the environmental restoration of all of the more than 20 hectares of sands that have been saved from the destruction of this section of coast.
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge hired in June 2022 the Drafting of the Puerto Mayor Facilities Removal Project and Restoration Dunar in the Manga Menor, included in the framework of priority actions to recover the Mar Menor.