Again a resounding to Altri’s cellulose macroplam: Neighborhood platforms and environmental associations march in a new protest, in this case with a symbolic descent through the Ulla River to the town of Padrón, to show again its refusal to this infrastructure and ask that “the river does not register.”
Remember that the Porti Altri company, under the name of Gama projectintends to launch a large textile fiber factory in the Pontevedra town of Palas de Rei; which has led to the protests of both the neighbors and of environmental and civil organizations.
This new claim has gathered to hundreds of people that, with this complaint, they seek again protect the ecosystem of the Ulla basin (As for the quality of its waters), in addition to defending the Ría de Aruous where “this river flows and where one of the richer seafood banks in the world ».
River protest along the Ulla river before Altri’s macroplant
More than a hundred vessels, between rafts, kayaks and canoes, have descended this morning by the Ulla until Padrón (A Coruña) in a new protest against the project of Altri cellulose macroplanta in Palas de Rei (Lugo) And to ask that Do not “give away” this river.
This claiming act convened by neighborhood platforms and environmental associations, which has ended with a concentration and reading a manifesto, has deployed by the last section of Ulla, from Ponte de Sinde to Campo da Insua, A flood of hundreds of people who raised the river also against the reopening of the open-air-o pine copper copper mine.
According to environmental associations, Altri’s mine and cellulose They will also endanger AruSo’s estuarywhere this river flows and is one of the “richest” marisquer banks. Under the name of Gama projectthe Portuguese company Altri It plans to launch a textile fiber factory in Palais de Rei (Lugo).
This has been indicated in statements to EFE from these platforms that consider that the participation registered in this type of vindictive events “They show that they will be alone in the Xunta” in their position in favor of the Altri range project.
They assure that it has been “very important” the fact that the government has decided to leave the macroplant funds necessary for project financing.
This factory “threatens the way of life” of the Ulloa region and that of Arous Territorial level, as a social, economic and environmental.
Therefore, they have urged to participate in the “great demonstration” of June 1 in Pontevedra, at 12 noon, a traditional march against the cellulose in this city, where the Ence is located, which will have the motto “Neither in the estuary, nor Altri in the Ulloa.”
More concentrations against Altri
Before a concentration is scheduled, on May 8 against the Congress of Deputies, to demand that the Government do not give any kind of public aid to this project -which the Xunta has declared as strategic and on which it has issued a positive environmental statement.
The descent, which has begun at ten in the morning and has ended after noon, has elapsed between ‘to water and non is cellulose’ (the water is ours and not of the cellulose) or ‘altri no’, by the river system ulla-deza, a Special Conservation Zone of the Natura 2000 Network that covers more than 1,600 hectares.
In addition, it includes a valuable hydrographic network between the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra that houses dozens of community interest habitats and numerous protected species, and more than 200,000 inhabitants of several municipalities depend on the water quality of the Ulla River for the supply of municipal water networks.
The Altri factory “as a tourist claim”
During the subsequent concentration, these organizations have criticized that in the positive environmental impact declaration (day) of the Xunta for the ALTRI GAMA PROJECTHeritage Favorably “for the company’s promise to convert the factory into an attractive architectural element and the fireplace into an artistic icon”, among other things, “painting it green.”
“They only need to say that the factory will compete with the Cathedral of Santiago as a tourist claim,” they have lamented, while denouncing that this “Greenwashing raised to the umpteenth power” and they have said that it cannot be consent that “A river like Ulla is given to a private company.”
In this same sense, they warn that the Ulla River “as a little pooch” cannot be treated in which chemical products, when in reality it is “a life and biodiversity conveyor belt” that nourishes the seafood and banks. “Galicia knows Mar and we want him to continue knowing the sea, neither mines nor cellulose,” They have proclaimed, remembering the motto “Galicia knows how to love” a campaign of the Xunta to promote fishery products. EFE / ECOTICIAS.com