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This week, as usual, the situation of the Mar Menor has been news at regional and national level.
In particular, it has been known that the head of the Court of Instruction No. 2 of Murcia has divided into three parts the preliminary proceedings 2750/2017 initiated after the complaint of the Prosecutor for the deterioration of the Mar Menor.
Thus, the judge has determined the establishment of three procedures for the damage caused by spills of agriculture, so that different cases will be brought against the heads of the Ministry of Agriculture, including the counselor Antonio Cerdá (PP);
the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura and 24 large companies and private farmers.
After these last reports, the president of MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, has taken the position of the Cartagena training on the future of the salt lake.
Jesús Giménez: a reconversion to take advantage of the potentialities of the Mar Menor
For us, the solution to the Mar Menor is to take advantage of its potential with a conversion that must include agriculture, mining and urban planning.
This area of ​​our Region is a unique environmental heritage and, as such, must be addressed, as an opportunity and not as a renunciation.
Only with a coordinated and joint strategy of the different administrations can this environment be improved for the benefit of future generations and also as an economic engine, which it is.
The Sierra de Cartagena, also known as Sierra Minera, must recover, inventorizing the industrial heritage and studying the state of the farms and concessions to, where appropriate, compel private owners to recover the land environmentally.
A quality brand for agriculture and a new model of urban development
Agriculture should be rationalized, creating a quality brand in those farms that can be maintained with sustainable environmental criteria, as José López has always proposed.
The international market values ​​this sustainable agriculture, and our farmers have shown at all times their willingness to comply with the measures imposed on them, provided they are based on criteria of optimization and respect for the environment.
Urban planning is current these days, and also needs planning that rationalizes and helps improve the environment, without sacrificing tourism.
The key we understand is quality.
The General Plan of 1987 contemplated ambiguous quality tourism developments.
Now it is necessary to delimit the areas where it can be built, without doubt reducing the surface, the height and the affectation of the landscape, offering to the owners and investors some norms that allow limited urban development, with positive repercussion to the environment and alternatives of exploitation of natural attractions like the Victoria Cave, the Salinas de Marchamalo or industrial heritage such as mines, as well as tax incentives as compensation for the necessary waiver of part of their urban rights.
The need for commitment from state and regional governments
Society has changed and asks politicians for solutions, not continuity to unsustainable practices.
Perhaps it is the first moment in history when the exit to this crisis, an authentic environmental catastrophe, is in the endogenous, in what is our own in the Campo de Cartagena, and we must make an approach for the next generations, because we suffer damages in the Mar Menor, the pollution belt of the city (El Hondón, Peñarroya or Zincsa) or Portmán.
And in this issue, in addition to high-mindedness, we need central and regional administrations to turn to Cartagena and the Mar Menor, as we have all done with Lorca during these years, with a budget and with bold decisions and proposals that allow us to offer to economically profitable alternative investors that do not necessarily pass through agriculture and intensive urbanism, betting on the quality of life as an attractive feature of an incomparable framework that nature has offered us.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena
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