The president of the Xunta de GaliciaAlfonso Rueda, was asked about the Galicia Water Report Filtrations on Altrireturning to parapete, one more week, about the technicians, whom he asks for “respect” after being “massacred” despite doing his work, he says, in a “impartial.”
The press filtration of the Galicia Aguas Report for the Environmental Impact Declaration of the with Media Galicia pending the environmental impact assessment of the Xunta de Galicia around the project of Others in King Palkesthe population discovered on Saturday that the report of Waters of Galiciaone of the crucial texts to know the viability of this initiative, occupied the central pages of The voice of Galicia.
It was not the Official Galicia Diary (Dog) The person in charge of making this crucial information known, but a header that, again -they go four times -, advances the resolution of documents on which it would be necessary to account for the regional government. This way of acting seriously damages the rights of people, groups and institutions that have contributed to the public participation process and have been waiting for the reports for more than a year.
Before the successive ones Interested leaks to the press of alleged sectoral reports related to the process of Environmental impact declaration of the Altri cellulose factory in A Ulloathe environmental organization Greenpeace today demanded the temporary stop of the process and an independent investigation to debug responsibilities on what he considers “An absolutely scandalous proceeding and a contempt for citizens by the Galician government”.
For the organization, The continuous statements of high positions of the Galician government favorable to the installation of ALTRI They already indicated that the decision was taken before commissioning sector reports, and their Interested filtration It only seems to respond to the need for Change criteria to a public opinion that has been constantly and massively manifested against the project.
Altri, a ‘scam’ to citizens
We are facing a way of acting that is not precedent in environmental evaluation processes in Galicia And what is it absolutely unfair with citizens. It does not seem logical or ethical that, before the most controversial industrial project of the last decades in Galicia, a single media has access to the most relevant documentation before the tens of thousands of people who have alleged by official route.
What does seem is that, given the overwhelming arguments of those who oppose Others, The Galician government has undertaken a media strategy aimed at imposing at all costs the interests of a private company on the protection of our nature and about the socioeconomic structure of Galicia.
Although it is not the first time that from the Xunta de Galicia with They filter alleged reports favorable to the installation of ALTRI, what happened last Saturday, February 1 with the publication of details of the Water Report of Galicia It is absolutely unusualsince numerous organizations have been waiting for a decision by this agency since December 2023.
In filtration there are also details about supposed “Technological improvements with respect to your original plan”, with what nitrogen and phosphorus emissions would be considerably lower than those originally established. This variation contrasts with the numerous statements made to date by the bin Otherswhich has assured by active and passive that the GAMA project had the best techniques available to avoid the aggravation of the already polluted affected water masses.
This indicates that The analysis of platforms, academic entities and environmental organizations on Altri’s impacts were right, and now the government and Altri try to correct on the march And without any seriousness.
All red lines that separate the administrative processes guarantee from interested impositions are being crossed, and this can generate a serious social fracture.
It is necessary for someone to stop this madness. That is why we also want to reiterate our request to those responsible for Altri to discard them.