Environment Association and resort before the High Court to overturn the extension to Ence – Yahoo Finance Spain

Pontevedra, Mar 3 (EFE) .- The Association Pola Defensa da Ria (PRDA) today unveiled the contents of the first administrative and legal remedies have been filed the Ministry of Environment and the National Court to try to overturn the extension granted to Ence by the caretaker government to continue its activity until 2073.

Anton Masa, president of the APDR, has advanced submitted to Environment an appeal against the decision in which he denied the status of party concerned the environmental group in the administrative procedure extraordinary extension to the company Ence.

This decision, Masa has called “arbitrary” and “devoid of any justification”, should cause, according to the lawyer Vicente Garcia Legísima, the annulment of the resolution, by limiting the “subjective rights and legitimate interests” of the association.

So, APDR requires Environment that all actions that have been made in the procedure of the new concession granted to Ence to not recognize as an interested party and not to grant hearing process throughout this processing are canceled.

association lawyer recalled that the Environment itself interpreted APDR was an interested party in the procedure for revocation of the license Ence, so now the government “can not recant” of this interpretation.

in addition in the administrative appeal requesting the Government, following the annulment of all actions, “abstain” to resolve the extension request on the ground that “should not forget” that an executive in office and anyone with a “minimum ethical decency “should not leave the Ria de Pontevedra” mortgaged “being in such a situation.

despite all this, Garcia Legísima said that” we have no faith any in this resource, “after seeing that the government “has not acted in accordance with law” in the processing of the extension requested by Ence “but using the law to the benefit of some private interests”.

APDR has greater confidence in the resource present before next March 20 before the Board of Administrative Litigation of the National Court.

This procedure is set out in the resolution signed by the Department of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea, with which the Middle environment granted the extension to the pulp mill company to continue occupying land in maritime-terrestrial domain in the estuary for sixty years.

the association has revealed that this resource, which is being finalized at present, will include as argument that the extension to Ence “means the mortgage the future of the estuary for generations and nullifies the chances of recovery of the same”

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