The cleaning tasks of the pouring of Pellets that splashed the Galician coast between the late 2023 and early 2024 cost the regional public coffers more than 2.3 million euros. The Ministry of Environment is not willing to be … The Galicians and the Galicians who have to assume that burden and, therefore, insists the central government to expedite the procedures to claim those responsible for the discharge to take charge of the costs. Otherwise, they have warned this Thursday in a statement, The regional executive threatens to reach the courts.
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Ángeles Vázquez, has sent a letter to the third vice president and minister for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge, Sara Aegesen, to insist on her request for information on the claim for the environmental damage and the costs generated by the discharge. In December 2023, the Mercante Toconao ship lost a pellet container on the Portuguese coast Splashing many Galician microplastics beaches difficult to collect due to their characteristics.
Specifically, what the Minister has done with that letter is to claim data on the opening of a procedure for demanding atmosphere, that the regional executive had already formally requested in January last year. The government of the socialist Pedro Sánchez, explains the Department in a statement, should identify those responsible for the event, evaluate medium -sized damages and define prevention and repair measures for, then, then, Require those responsible to take charge of costs that were supposed for the Xunta and for the concelos all those works.
And is that the operation, during which in those weeks It acted on more than 630 beaches of a total of 66 coastal municipalities, It had an estimated cost of 2.3 million euros, according to the calculations of the Ministry. “An economic disbursement that does not have to be assumed by the Galicians and Galicians, but by those responsible for the damage,” the Department of Vázquez insists on a press sent to the media.
Given this reality, the Xunta requires the central executive to begin, without delay, the aforementioned procedure. If that “silence” is maintained in the ministry, the Ministry, the Xunta, warns will present an appeal, «step prior to the filing of a demand before the contentious-administrative jurisdiction ».
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