Azkoitia PNV: "We reject the Azkarate plant"
- The Maxixatzen media has published the letter that the PNV has sent to it. He said no to the Azkoitia plant because it is "more than a construction and demolition waste plant" and "does not want to increase the division of the people". It has called on the Commonwealth of Urola Medio to "provide a solution" to Lapatx's construction and demolition waste. Then, the part of the opinion article of the PNV that accounts for this decision.
"EAJ-PNV of Azkoitia rejects the Azkarate plant as being more than a construction and demolition waste plant (20,000 tonnes of the maximum of 183,000 tonnes of the planned year are not construction and demolition waste), because it goes far beyond the needs of the valley and we do not want to increase the fragmentation of the village. In this regard, we fully support the need for unanimity established by the Mayor and the Municipal Government as a condition.
But that does not mean that we deny that there is a problem, as was seen at the time in the Community of Urola Erdia. That is why we ask the Community to carry out a thorough analysis of the needs of the valley. At the time, in the Mancomunidad de Urola Erdia, EH Bildu among others, the decision was unanimously taken to give a solution in Lapatx to construction and demolition waste, but it could not be carried out due to lack of legislation and statutes. We ask you to recover and deepen that path, because today Lapatx only receives and to some extent receives construction and demolition waste from minor works. Consequently, in cooperation with the other institutions, we call for a solution, if necessary, to be given to the needs of the valley, as well as to the construction and demolition waste that goes beyond these small works.
According to current local legislation, the Community of Urola Medio, as in principle the City Hall, does not have competence for the treatment of construction and demolition waste. However, the law is something that can change, and from EAJ-PNV we believe that this is the way forward, if possible, by providing a public solution to the management of construction and demolition waste.
In any event, we share the need to step up public controls, and so we ask Lapatx for all the construction and demolition waste that it also receives.
Until today, as a party, we have remained silent throughout the participatory process organized by the City Hall to give our opinion, because we wanted to take into account everything that had been said to us both. Many of us don't understand that we've given our opinion so late, but we wanted to be careful because the issue has its complexity."
In the second part of the opinion, the PNV makes an interpretation of the evolution of what has been the debate in Azkoitia with the title "more than extinguishing the fire". In it, he states that "the municipal government and the mayor have never intended to make a landfill of industrial waste in the Azkarate neighborhood". He asks EH Bildu to say that "Azkarate's waste recovery plant was never a landfill project."
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