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The Dam on the river Gallego Monegros irrigation aims. No more need be said to realize that this project should never have arisen. Still, it has developed a project and in environmental impact assessment. SEO / BirdLife had the opportunity to discuss the project and its Environmental Impact Study (EIS) and make allegations. Since then, the EIS had endless deficits and grossly undervalued and hidden impacts the impact on the Natura 2000 network. We did this record in the claims.

The Directorate General of Quality and Environmental Assessment, perhaps guided by the claims, perhaps for the sake of doing good work, commissioned a report on the EIS CEDEX and the impact. I copied the first three paragraphs of the findings for yourselves opinéis:

" analyzed the documentation submitted, it is considered that the project discussed has very significant impacts on the environment. Although

Impact Assessment included in the EIS minimizes many of the conditions, and considers the overall impact modest, the significance of the changes induced in the river ecosystem, its length, reaching the entire lower Rio Gallego, its irreversibility and sunk, and the significant cumulative and synergistic effect, regional and local level when analyzed together with the succession of reservoirs that dot the river, should lead to assess the overall impact as critical.

addition, the environmental impact study does not allow an evaluation, with a reasonable degree of certainty, certain impacts such as those generated on the fauna, in the absence of specific and reliable data on the species and populations present, and be possible existence of endangered species. "

Knowing this report, the irrigators and the Government of Aragon to the Minister of the Front environment (not agriculture) attacked the Ministry is authorized to demand and to build the dam (see for example news that I link you here ). The Minister for the Environment of Aragon believes that the MARM goes too far to ask for reports on the impact of the dam before authorizing and that the mere fact that a Water Board will vote alone is reason enough to skip the formalities Impact Assessment Environmental. So: What is the Environmental Impact Assessment? What are you doing the Ministry of Environment responsible environmental assessment of many projects?

In my opinion it is irresponsible to declare publicly that, despite the impacts exist, despite what the laws say, despite the natural heritage that cost us, we must make a specific project. I'm sure the upcoming elections have a lot to do with the furious response from the Government of Aragon to the report of CEDEX and the penalty is that statements of this kind does not cost them 10 times more votes than they are. We need to change our society, we need to change the world "begin charging Biscarrués? We will go all out.