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- "Dozens of orange training initiatives in the Congress of Deputies and in the Regional Assembly have been systematically ignored by the PP, but we are going to redouble efforts", announced today the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín
- The failure of the regional government to declare the contaminated area, the CSN's failure to comply with its obligation to create an inventory of contaminated soils due to radioactivity, the absence of a regulatory framework at the national level, and the delay in submitting a municipal project for the use future of the land, is blocking and making it difficult to start the decontamination actions, according to the orange formation
Cartagena, Thursday, October 4.
"Cartagena must be the Spanish municipality with respect to its territory has more square meters of contaminated soil, and there is no other culprit than the reckless and irresponsible abandonment of functions for decades by the PP and PSOE in the Government of Spain, in the Community and the City Council, "said today the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, after learning last night that the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has published that it keeps six areas under radiological surveillance throughout the Spanish territory, including the paraje del Hondón, in which radioactivity has been detected, "information that is not new, but we hope that its official publication and its clear forcefulness will remove the foundations of the policy and correct the aluminosis suffered by the bipartisanship in Spain".
For Citizens it is especially reprehensible that the regional government of the PP has not even declared contaminated these soils, as it was approved in the Commission of Territorial Policy and Environment in February 2017 at the proposal of the orange training.
In that resolution, the orange deputy, Luis Fernandez, demanded that the necessary measures be taken without further delay to decontaminate and rehabilitate the land through a project validated by the Nuclear Safety Council.
The Cs initiative states that, as indicated by the CSN, while the decontamination actions are being processed and implemented, sanitary protection measures against ionizing radiation will be adopted urgently: delimitation of the affected area, regulation of access and use, apply a surveillance system for exposures, among others, in application of article 61 of Royal Decree 783/2001 of July 6, which approves the regulation on health protection against radiation.
In the Congress, the national deputies of Cs, Miguel Garaulet and José Luis Martínez, have requested explanations to the national Government since the beginning of 2017, without obtaining a certain commitment from the State or a clear strategy to undertake the decontamination.
For the orange formation, the regional government's failure to declare the contaminated area, the CSN's non-compliance with its obligation to create an inventory of soils contaminated by radioactivity as ordered by article 81 of Royal Decree 35/2008, the absence of a framework The national regulator, and the lack of a municipal project for the future use of the land, is blocking the start-up of the clean-up and restriction actions since, as the CSN admits, it can not fulfill its obligations with the guarantees enough in terms of legal security.
So far, the CSN has been limited to launching recommendations such as the arrangement of the security fence around El Hondón, "not even this has wanted to make the regional PP," says Manuel Padín who today has moved to all instances of Cs the need to undertake a national and regional political offensive that corrects all those chaotic normative and legislative dysfunctions that PSOE and PP have left in their wake ".
After 20 months since the approval of these measures and after 16 years since the end of industrial activity in the area, the PP Government has not made any action, "neither here, nor on the affected soils in the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Union and in Mazarrón where there are abandoned tons of toxic and dangerous waste, or in the land where the old mining-metallurgical factory of Peñarroya was located, in the neighborhood of Santa Lucía ", denounced the spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, which considers that" If neither the Government of Spain nor the regional government react, we can only go to Europe to denounce that the national and regional policy has abandoned thousands of contaminated square meters in the south-east of Spain and the neighbors who live around it " .
The crucial role of the City Council
On the other hand, the Cs spokesperson understands that any decontamination action or plan is necessarily subordinated, as we know, to the uses to be given to the land, "it will not be the same plan if you want to build blocks of houses, a park, make an industrial use, or a combination of both. "
In this sense, Manuel Padín, has blamed the previous government coalition (MC and PSOE) and the current Executive to further delay the clean-up actions because of his lurches on what is intended to be done there and has asked the City Council to clarify exactly what projects you want to build there, and that you acquire the consensus of all the political groups, and refer the project to the Nuclear Safety Council for evaluation. "
"We said at the time that the acquisition of the land of El Hondón by the City Council was a dangerous move that can be very expensive for the people of Cartagena if the Community and the State turn their backs on us," said Manuel Padín, who believes necessary the urgent convocation of the Board of Spokesmen to clarify "some doubts that we still have, for example, we know that the PSOE Government announced its intention to develop El Hondón with housing and green areas but there is no project or know the details, and in what state is the decontamination plan and the ordering of uses that the UPCT is doing, and that presumably will be presented next month ".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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