Costa News Spain Breaking News | English News in Spain.
A group of environmentalists wants an investigation into the alleged illegal transfer of 100,000 tons of stone from a quarry in Malaga to build a breakwater on the Strait of Gibraltar.
Verdemar-Ecologists In Action has requested that prosecutors investigate the transfer of Gibraltar Eastern Strait to the Special Conservation Area.
They claim that the decision violates Special Plan for La Utrera in Casares.
READ MORE
Group president, Antonio Muñoz, said they calculated the amount of stone being moved by monitoring daily lorry movements and what has accumulated in Gibraltar in increasing land area from the sea.
The Andalucian Government denies that the environmental standards at La Utrera have not been met.
Muñoz says there the number of lorries leaving the quarry amounts to ‘frenetic activity’.
Casares City Council informed him of complaints by residents about dust and particle pollution caused by lorries traveling on local roads.
Muñoz stated that the council took over a year to reply to his complaints and did so recently.
The group claims that ‘many public institutions have been operating without anybody to monitor good environmental practices in places of great value’.
