A POBRA DO CARAMINAL: Hundreds of individuals on boats and on land staged a “surf and turf” protest in northwest Spain on Saturday towards a deliberate textile manufacturing facility and the reopening of a copper mine.
Protesters within the coastal metropolis of A Pobra do Caraminal, in Spain’s Galicia area, decried what they mentioned had been the environmental dangers posed by each services.
Organisers, who termed the rally a “surf and turf” protest, mentioned that they had suspicions concerning the plans by Portuguese firm Altri to construct a manufacturing facility to make lyocell, a semi-synthetic textile.
They mentioned they feared it was simply cowl to construct a cellulose plant that may pollute the area’s Ulloa River and its Arousa Estuary.
The location of the manufacturing facility is in Palas de Rei, near a piece of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route utilized by a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals yearly.
The organisers, calling themselves the Platform for the Defence of the Arousa Estuary, mentioned additionally they opposed the deliberate reopening of an open-cast copper mine in Touro, simply east of town of Santiago de Compostela. The mine was closed in 1986.
Manoel Santos, a regional consultant for Greenpeace, mentioned the Altri textile manufacturing facility “may spell the loss of life of the Arousa Estuary”.
Galicia’s regional authorities has declared the manufacturing facility to be ecologically viable.
A spokeswoman for Greenfiber, Altri’s subsidiary answerable for the undertaking, denied any air pollution threat. She instructed Galician public tv that the manufacturing facility “scrupulously respects all EU environmental guidelines”.
