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The Office of the Public Prosecutor files the complaint of IU regarding macrobreeding in Lorca for not finding criminal offenses but can follow its course in the competent Court.
Before the possible dismissal of Francisco Jódar, Gloria Martin asks the new owner of Livestock "more sensitivity, good sense and vision of the future"
The councilor of Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Gloria Martin, has reported that the Environmental Prosecutor of the Region of Murcia has shelved the investigative proceedings initiated last October after this political formation denounced possible irregularities in some macro-farms implanted in Lorca.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor understands that the facts denounced do not constitute a criminal offense, although it states that they can be reproduced before the competent court, which is being assessed by the legal advisers of the 'Stop cebaderos' platform next to the houses'.
In that sense, Martin has said that "there may be no criminal liability in the City of Lorca to grant works licenses without requesting reports to the Segura Hydrographic Confederation, which must decide on the availability of water resources to meet new demands, or in burying corpses of pigs in holes in the earth and pouring slurry indiscriminately ", but" we continue to believe that they are irregularities and we will continue alongside those who suffer its consequences ".
For Martin it is an "objective" fact that the uncontrolled proliferation of farms is generating in Lorca "serious problems" of neighborhood coexistence because there are citizens who feel injured their constitutional rights to health and to an adequate environment.
For this reason, he assured that IU-Greens will continue to support their demands and demand from the City Council a new urban planning that reconciles the residential and livestock land uses.
The mayor of IU-Greens, thanked the Prosecutor for the work carried out by the Prosecutor and has positively assessed that her complaint has contributed to placing on the political agenda the environmental problems linked to industrial livestock, especially those related to the water supply and the intensive, and often uncontrolled, discharge of slurry.
In this regard, he also expressed his satisfaction that the General Directorate of Public Health today announced the increase in the number of inspectors in the feedlots to guarantee "more transparency and control in the sector".
"We know that there is nervousness and uncertainty", which has translated into political initiatives in the regional Assembly and in the City of Lorca "to regulate the flows intended for livestock," he said.
"We know that it is a concern for many businessmen since until now the focus has not been on how the water supply is carried out in their farms," ​​he said.
The mayor of IU-Green understands that the sector needs "legal security" but expressed its opposition to the Tajo-Segura Transfer being "squeezed" to serve the interests of private industry to the detriment of the population.
That is why he asked for "sanity" and that the pressures on the CHS cease because "greed can break the sack".
Martín assured that IU will continue to bet on a sustainable rural and agricultural development that, "in the face of the infinite thirst for the benefits of a small and powerful business lobby, support cooperatives and small producers and give priority to activities such as extensive and ecological livestock and rural and nature tourism ".
"We know that it is David's fight against Goliath, but we are committed to the right of people to health, with the preservation of the environment and also with traditional livestock, linked to the land, and that contributes to set population in the rural, "he said.
The mayor explained that macrogranjas "destroy three times as many jobs as they generate", since their high automation requires very little labor and the jobs they create "are of poorer quality, precarious and poorly remunerated", in addition to being a "very polluting" industry.
The councilor of IU-Greens opined that 652 pig farms, with 601,388 heads (official data) in Lorca are "sufficient" and that it was "a recklessness" that the Minister Francisco Jódar today dismissed from the portfolio of Livestock-announced an expansion of the 20% of the capacity of the farms.
"He believed that he lacked perspective and that he persisted in satisfying the demands of the union at all costs without listening to an important part of society that demands a more diversified and sustainable economic model, that redistributes wealth better, be responsible with the exhaustion of natural resources and preserve the environment. "
Therefore, he wished that his successor or successor act with "more sensitivity, good sense and vision of the future".
Martín also asked the City Council to stop granting licenses for the construction of macro-weeds "without attending to any planning or carrying out an adequate management of the sector".
"Nobody listened to IU when it warned of the consequences of the unbridled policy of the brick, or clamored against the degradation of the Mar Menor", therefore, according to the facts, "the PP should learn from the mistakes made and not accumulate social disasters and environmental ones that later will have to try to solve others when maybe there is no remedy ".
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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