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The deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group Yolanda Fernández will request the appearance in the Assembly of the Minister of Employment, Universities, Business and Environment, Javier Celdrán, to explain the actions that his Council will adopt on the occasion of the fire in the plant of biomass of Pastrana, (Mazarrón).

Yolanda Fernández expressed her concern about the environmental consequences that this event could have, while she recalled that since 2011 there has been evidence by the Local Police of this municipality of the existence of irregular activity in an illegal dump and, therefore, , with serious fire danger;

an activity that "apparently was regularized in 2014", although it has continued to give problems, as reflected in the 2017 report of the Environmental Planning and Evaluation Service of the General Directorate of the Environment.

This document recommends paralyzing and proceeding to the suspension of the activity in the two plots affected, for not complying with the conditions for which they are authorized, as they are storing waste without identifying destination, unauthorized waste and in addition the dangerous characteristics of the same are unknown.

The Socialist parliamentarian added that, as a result of said report, from the Environmental Management and Discipline Service, the beginning of the procedure of reestablishment of the environmental legality for the aforementioned breach was agreed.

What was notified to both the mercantile and the City of Mazarrón.

"For a year and a half nothing has been done about it, and days ago we learned that a fire broke out in this biomass plant, causing discomfort to the inhabitants of the area, who feared that the flames would spread, which It happened thanks to the excellent work of the firefighting media that acted quickly in the affected area, "he said.

These neighbors have shown their concern on numerous occasions before the public administrations for the state of these plots, but have not received a response.

Abandonment of ecologists

On the other hand, Yolanda Fernández, has requested explanations from the counselor about the reasons that led the Environmental Advisory Council to leave the representatives of the ANSE and Ecologists in Action associations;

In addition, he has also asked in the House what are the steps taken by the regional government to reverse this situation.

Source: PSRM-PSOE