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ANSE and Greenpeace call for restoration of Puerto Mayor (La Manga) (01/02/2015)

On the morning of Saturday, fifteen members of ANSE and Support Group Greenpeace in Murcia have been planted in the dunes of the Caleta del Estacio 200 specimens of plants characteristic of the sands of La Manga (Asparagus macrorhizus, spinosa Echinophora, Elymus farctus, Cyperus capitatus, Limonium cossonianum and Scabiosa atropurpurea), in protest and claim administrations to ask for the environmental recovery of the area affected by the works of Puerto Mayor (La Manga, San Javier, Murcia) area.

On January 31, 2005, some 40 activists from Greenpeace and ANSE accessed from several fast to the construction of Puerto Mayor boats and blocked both machinery working at sea and land access.

Wrapped by an extremely unusual snowfall, asked the competent administrations total cessation of work and conservation of one of the last undeveloped sections not yet been destroyed by urban development and port infrastructure.

Thanks to protest ANSE and Greenpeace, the Ministry of Environment, then headed by Cristina Narbona, took legal action against the decision of the Autonomous Community of authorizing the resumption of work without first deciding on the possible lease expiration or make a preliminary EIA.

The administrative appeal, which also acted as a private prosecution organizations said the resumption of the works, which were until now abandon illegal.

The project aimed Puerto Mayor building one of the largest marinas on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, with capacity for mooring boats about 950 medium and large length near the entrance to the Canal del Estacio, and very close to the largest Sports in the Region of Murcia, with capacity for 1600 boats port.

The initial project was accompanied by 2150 homes, hotels, golf course and commercial area, some of which were to be built on land reclaimed from the sea.

The construction of the port would have meant the destruction of a large beach about 800 m long, with no possible alternative in an area where dozens of buildings have been built in the last 15 years and have been eliminated between 8 and 10 hectares of sandy Now undeveloped.

10 years after this action, the works are still paralyzed, and access to the beach cut by a metal fence, while the sands are growing rapidly invaded by groves of acacia, and large metal plates that marked the inner perimeter the port basin are deteriorating by the action of the sea.

ANSE and Greenpeace calling on all administrations and political formations that occur in the forthcoming elections and commit to work for the final project file marina, and bet for the environmental restoration of the area, and its transformation into a large dune park for public use controlled in an environment of great beauty and environmental interest, near the protected area of ​​Isla Grossa.

Source: ANSE y Greenpeace

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