Thursday, April 18, 2024, 11:28
The Mar Menor will receive almost 200 million euros for its recovery, which will be added to the initial budget that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition has set for the lagoon. In total, the state plan now includes an investment of 675.05 million euros, as announced by the third vice president of the central government, Teresa Ribera, in a visit this Thursday to the facilities of the San Pedro del Pinatar desalination plant. Ribera has returned to the Region of Murcia to report to different economic, social and scientific sectors on how the planned actions in the ecosystem are progressing, and left a message: “It would be illusory to think that, as we have made some progress, we can lift the step on the accelerator and tolerate things that would end up generating the same problems” that were found at the beginning. The visit occurs a day after the Regional Assembly debated, voted and rejected up to three proposals to modify the law of the Mar Menor, but with the exception that the regional government led by Fernando López Miras has agreed to undertake a reform of this norm. environmental.
Ribera stressed to those attending a meeting at the desalination plant facilities that, once the recovery plan coordinated by his Ministry had begun, “we realized along the way that an increase in supplies was required,” therefore that a budget “that was outdated” has been updated and that it must be executed before 2026, as it depends on European recovery funds. This extra allocation that the Mar Menor receives will be used to strengthen the restoration of the mining mountain range of Cartagena and La Unión (going from 40 to 110 million euros), to hydrological measures in the headwaters of the Campo de Cartagena basin (30 million ), to a new line of aid for livestock farmers in order to reduce the “risk associated with pig farms” also in the capital and another subsidy of 20 million euros to separate the stormwater network from wastewater in the riverside municipalities .
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