The network estuary Non For Sale , composed of 16 groups, has met for the third time with chairman of the Port Authority of Vigo, Xesús Paz. On this occasion was to get explanations on the proposals made by two external consultants to the port on zoning uses and possible expansions of the port.

In previousboard, the network had already submitted their suggestions for drafting the so-awaited plan uses, and an extensive report detailing 14 environmental hot spots of the estuary, both within the jurisdiction of the VCT as in other locations.

Some of these new proposals are already known by the press, which, at least the more formal, seems committed to imagine a broad consensus around them, when the reality is that the information they handle are incomplete, fail to Much of the sectors with economic activity within the environmental state of the estuary or the people on the street, and insist on boring perorata growth, progress, etc..

Fish and shellfish: 60,000 jobs

The reality, despite the apparent good intentions of the current president of the VCT, is that we continue witnessing the plundering and destruction of the natural wealth of fishery resources and shellfish and landscape of an estuary that provides a livelihood for 15,000 direct jobs (9,991 in fishing, shellfish in the 1,124, 2,373 and 2,109 in aquaculture in activities directly related to earth) and 45,000 indirect jobs.

A port chaotic and predator expansion project

For years, the lack of industrial land caused by the absence of spatial planning, turned around the estuary in a chaotic and disparatado industrial estate. More than half of the 650 concessions of land are occupied by enterprises and facilities that are not related to port activity. So it is normal that there are never enough site ...

Those responsible for the VCT recognize the use of port spaces for activities that could be made in other locations and designed a plan in time to remove some of these companies, but are bound by a disastrous management so far, and These shipments have great difficulties.

fillings, illegalities and marinas

The port of Vigo is the only one of 28 belonging to the State Ports that has not adopted a Plan of uses, and that plan was mandatory in 1993. And the chaos continues, without anybody radical intervention is needed.

Quite the contrary, it ignores the overall analysis needed to make proposals and to please focus on specific interests, consolidating examples of corruption and lawlessness as the marina Punta Lagoa, the Guide, 350 berths, which destroyed shellfish banks, degraded the beach at the Lagoa, seriously affected the Punta and swept the habitat of the seahorse. Hanging over the downing of two resolutions and four court rulings confirming its many illegalities. All this is resolved "rewarding" to its sponsor, the chairman of Pescanova, with 5,000 m2 of new landfills and 30,000 m3 of dredged at the premises of his company in Chapela, bordering on Natura 2000 network.

Because, once again, growth is offshore Port. 230,000 m2 of fillings are the real basis of this proposal. And about 60,000 of them within the Natura net.

Citroen PSA, a firm that has neither a single square meter of granting port (or the enormous space it occupies are allocated to any other operator) benefits from an expansion of its surface dedicated to stock car through conducting silos in height, and larger, more than 80,000 m2 of extra padding in Bouzas.

Offices and warehouses Zone, a football field, a sports hall, an exhibition hall, a furniture factory and many industrial buildings remain in this lucrative (for the port) stuffing, situated on which had been the most productive shellfish bank of the estuary, a bank which went from producing 940 tons of clams in the year 1967 only one in 1986.

In the absence of bread, buy estampitas: draft Nouvel

Abel Caballero used his passage through the VCT as a springboard for the mayor of Vigo, convening a contest to remodel the central area of the port (with a basis inconsistent with the port legislation) that was awarded to Jean Nouvel. The current proposals leave blank space for this project, impossible to perform under applicable law, but that would support economic secured by the creation of some 1,150 seats mooring in the city centre and a grotesque luxury hotel in the middle of the sea. The privatization of the estuary has always been lucrative for someone.

In Salgueirón in Cangas, playing with the same ingredients: illegality, architect of luxury, privatization and marina for 420 moorings in an area of great natural wealth. Shopping Centre, 5-star hotel and luxury housing complete the pelotazo. And disputes that pay those affected.

The port is also Natura net

In the area of Rande, in full Natura net, presented two new proposals for filling, 21,358 m2 in Punta Chapelisa and 32,000 m2 over expanding the terminal granite, we must unite the 10,000 draft VTE in Rande.

Draft stuffed in Pescanova and Punta Chapelisa: 26,358 m2

Something like this had to imagine when in 2005 the Foundation Provigo closed the Environmental Monitoring of the Ria de Vigo, apparently for not being able to take the 70,000 euros from its annual cost. I could feel that reason if it were not such a foundation is formed among others by the Consortium de la Zona Franca, Caixanova, the provincial council, Citröen, the Chamber of Commerce or the Financial Club de Vigo.

Draft stuffed in Duchess: 32,000 m2

And it's not just the VCT which has a voracious behavior with the estuary, also seeks to promote the Xunta facilities in the former ete, ETEA, a marina with 1,076 berths, within a master plan for marinas which aims to create over 5,000 new moorings in the estuary. They say, without any shame, that seek to attract boats from northern Portugal and other countries to spend the winter on our shores, offering cheaper prices.

Pollution

The disastrous state of the sewerage network together with problems in the functioning of the treatment plants, non-separation of rainwater from urban and industrial waste, makes overwhelm all spillways of coastline with absolutely normal rainfall, resulting in huge concentrations of coliform who joined the concentrations of heavy metals, hydrocarbons and chlorobiphenyl to affect the quality and price of products of the estuary and compromise their future.

At the same time, the Environment Department ignores environmental assessment of the overall plans of Vigo and Moaña, which, like that of Baiona, projected to double the number of homes.

A RIA NON SE VENDE in the days before the event convened for next Sunday May 25, introduced at different locations on an audiovisual environmental degradation of the Ria de Vigo. "SOS Vigo estuary" provides an overview on the delicate state health and our greatest natural resource and major projects and plans that threaten. Over a week, from Cangas to Nigrán through Moaña, Redondela, Navia, Teisan, San Miguel de Oia, Bouzas, Alcabre, Coruxo and several places in the centre of Vigo, will present this report followed by a colloquium open to participation by attendees.