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Date Published: 18/08/2023

Cartagena West residents protest against CEMEX mining project

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The work involves extracting rock in Cartagena to manufacture cement

Cartagena West residents protest against CEMEX mining project

Residents and neighbourhood groups in Cartagena West have come together in a bid to stop a huge mining project planned by CEMEX Spain Organisations. The protesters argue that the work not only threatens the natural and cultural heritage of the area, but also the way of life and health of the residents.

Locals fear that the mining project, whose ultimate goal is to extract rock to manufacture cement, will degrade the surrounding land and have far-reaching negative effects on the environment.

The campaign will begin with a petition which objectors can sign in all of the area’s town halls as well as in health centres, shops and other local establishments. At the same time, the groups have requested a meeting with Cartagena City Council "to demand that they refuse to allow the type of activities to which CEMEX is dedicated to be carried out in their municipality and remind them that District 1 was declared, in agreement with the collectives of the western zone due to the recent threat of photovoltaics, a ‘Rural Area of Special Environmental and Social Sensitivity’ that makes it incompatible with the activity proposed by CEMEX".

The local council will also be asked to decree the area ‘Land of High Environmental, Landscape and Agricultural Value (SAVAPA)’, a status that would afford it legal protection from such exploitation in the future.

In addition, a meeting has been called with the government department that granted the permits for the project, during which the environmental groups will point out that the permissions aren’t valid since they directly go against the Natura 2000 Network.

The Network, detractors have argued, contains a specific commitment to the revitalisation and development of Cartagena West. This includes measures which cover the promotion of rural, nature and sports tourism, the use of renewable energies and other ecological activities, but none at the expense of the environment.

Cartagena West, the activists stress, supports the "balance between nature and its inhabitants, rich in biodiversity and cultural and intangible heritage, bets in favour of sustainable development, the empowerment of the rural world and rejects initiatives that endanger them, such as those sought by CEMEX."

In other news: Cartagena promotes the rural treasures of Perín, Tallante, Isla Plana and La Azohía

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