Experts point out that the Altri project is unabordable not only from its environmental opticsbut also when evaluating its economic viability or when considering the primary sector both in its agricultural and forestry aspect, without forgetting the social factors linked to the externalities that the territory generates.
In Spain there are already ten cellulose factories that only in 2022 used 4,989,638 of m3 of raw material, to produce a total of 1,544,443 tn of cellulose paste, which they suppose almost half of the consumption of existing eucalyptus trees in Spain.
This project would increase eucalyptus demand for the cellulose paste industry in Spain by almost 50 %. To this is added the problem of the water that is needed for its operation, to the probable contamination of the sources used (Ulla River) and much more. Therefore, Ecologists insist on their fight against the Altri project.
You cannot allow the Altri project to come true
La Asociación to the Defense Ecoloxic of Galicia (Adega) and La Plataforma EN Defense of Arousa (PDRA) Han Announced this Viernes La implementation of joint legal actions to try to avoid the construction of the cellulose macropactory that Altri projects EN KING PAULES (LUG).
The route they have chosen, as they have explained in a press conference, is the presentation of an appeal, a condition prior to the judicial contentious, by the administrative silence of AUGAS de Galicia before the request for archiving of the archive of the Water concession file from the Ulla River to industrial use requested by Greenfiber, subsidiary of Altri.
Associations that promote legal actions indicate that in the Processing of the Aguas Concession requested by ALTRI (46,000 m³/day), the regulation of the hydraulic public domain sets a maximum period of 18 months to resolve, after which the request will be understood dismissed.
According to them, that procedure began, as late, on November 30, 2022 and the deadline to resolve would have ended on May 30, 2024, 18 months after the date of the first publication in the Official Gazette. In February, Adega and Pdra asked the director of Augas de Galiza to declare the expiration of the procedure, without having received today, more than 3 months later, an express resolution.
These associations affirm that the petition was dismissed by administrative silencean act that has just resorted to elevation and that, in front of an eventual new silence or dismissal, will result in a demand for contentious-administrative route, have announced.
To undertake these legal actions, they have the nearly 40,000 euros that raised in just 20 days in the “Xustiza for O Ulla” campaign. The project of ALTRI has the favorable environmental impact declaration (day), although with conditions, but still lacks integrated environmental authorizationamong other procedures. EFE / ECOticias.com