Building a cable car in the Tormaleo mine is a ‘madness’, according to environmentalists

Yesterday the consultation of the construction project of the cable car of 4.4 kilometers that will save a slope of 509 meters, granacias to European subsidies, in a mine that is being restored with public funds after leaving the private initiative abandoned. Now, According to environmentalists, a company without economic solvency wants to squeeze the recovered by massifying the area, to make the subsidy profitable.

The project is Find in an area of ​​high biodiversity, with endemic species and fragile ecosystems that are recovering after the wild mining exploitation that the Principality aware and that, in another example of the negligence of the mining service that allows the farms to break without restoring anything, I remain completely devastated.

The Cable car construction and associated infrastructure can generate impacts such as habitat loss, ecosystems fragmentation and alteration of fauna migration patternsonce start working. Remember that it is an Osera area and one of the few redoubts of the Urogallo in Asturias.

Cable car: Project ‘Space Tormaleo’

The Ecologist Coordinator of Asturias has announced which will present allegations against the ‘Space Tormaleo’ project, which plans to build a cable car In the surroundings of the Tormaleo mine, in Ibias, for considering it “crazy” and harmful to the environment in an area of ​​great biodiversity.

According to the environmental group, the project area is located in an area of ​​”high biodiversity” that are being recovered after “the wild mining exploitation” that the Principality has not only consented but has never worried that it is restored, something that has considered a “negligence.”

“The mines service allows The farms break without restoring anything despite the continuous complaints we made from the ecoloxist coordinator”, He lamented.

The coordinator He has criticized that a company “without economic solvency” now wants to “squeeze what the area recovered to make the subsidy”And he has warned that the construction of the cable car and associated infrastructure can generate environmental impacts in an area that is OSera and has a presence of Urogallos.

“To the Neighbors of Ibias must be offered a future that cannot be account to fill the place as a project now to the project for the end of the weekend”, Has claimed the group. EFE/ECOTICIAS.com