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Ecologists in Action report laxity and ineffectiveness Lorca Hall (13/02/2013)

Ecologists in Action criticizes Councilman statements Environment of the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales, confundr terms and minimize the problem, even claiming that Lorca pollution comes from outside the municipality, when so far not been any studies scientific research or endorse such statements.

What is a fact is that since 2010 come Autonomous Municipality and excusing their lack of initiatives to tackle the problem of tropospheric ozone, they do not know where it comes from such pollution, and yet, and yet be the case alarming in Europe in three years has not started any serious study about it.

For this environmental organization, statements Environment councilor trying to divert attention from the serious problem that the municipality is air pollution by ozone without the council has taken any effective measure to ascertain the origin, or to reduce it in a meaningful way but knew the worsening trend since 2010.

In the three years 2010-12 have exceeded day / year legal target value for the protection of the ozone health is set to 120 micrograms per cubic meter for the maximum daily eight-hour mean, not to be exceeded 25 days per calendar year (75 in total) under current legislation.

(Royal Decree 102/2011, of 28 January on improving air quality).

It should be noted that the World Health Organization (WHO), since 2005, has lowered the recommended limit value for the protection of health from 120 to 100 micrograms per cubic meter, based on scientific evidence, so that, using the WHO limit value would increase much more the days when ground-level ozone is at values ​​above the healthy.

This value should not be confused with the limits of high concentrations timely alerts, which as the name suggests are sporadic cases.

Here is the level of pollution suffered by the municipality continues.

When targets are exceeded the triennium 2010-2012, the legislation establishes an obligation for regional administration, in coordination with local government, approved air quality plans in order to achieve the related limit value (art. 24 Royal Decree 102/2011).

Environmentalists calling for greater diligence in the implementation and development of this plan to improve air quality, to be conducted with the participation of all social partners.

Also need more control measures to prevent future exceedances of the limit values ​​for other pollutants such as PM10 microparticles, microparticles PM2, 5, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, all of them related to traffic and certain industries, and recently carried Janez Potocnik, Commissioner for Environment of the European Commission, has announced the tightening of the legal limits of pollution that allows Member States, following a new WHO study reveals that air pollution damages health more than previously thought.

Ecologists in Action has consistently criticized the passivity and manifests the City of Lorca, and the attempt to minimize what is a public health problem and not just a mere administrative failure, and asks them to leave their morass to address this problem of deteriorating air quality in the city by air pollution, not just referring to tropospheric ozone.

Therefore require the work of an urgent and serious in determining the causes of ozone pollution in Lorca and therefore take decisions which will address it, and remember that it is not the only pollutant on which to act in the municipality .

Finally, the organization stated that it is undeniable that the benefit of face-to air quality would have a Sustainable Mobility Plan, which would reduce emissions of motor traffic, as well as greater control of emissions of potentially polluting industries.

Source: Ecologistas en Acción

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