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Guess who has to clarify the mystery of dead fish in the Arkaitzerreka of Zubieta

  • Hundreds of eels and fish have been found dead in the Arkaitzerreka River, which went down from the Gipuzkoa incinerator last Saturday. As has been known since then, the Water Agency has undertaken the investigation of whether any of the infrastructures of the so-called Gipuzkoa Environmental Park, the Ekondakin incinerator or the CMT have to do with the origin of this fact. But guess who runs in that Water Agency...

The Basque Water Agency, URA, assured on Sunday in Euskadi Irratia that the officials of the Basque Water Agency (URA) had personated themselves in the place to take fish samples, half an hour after the discovery of the dead fish in the Arkaitzerreka River headed towards the Oria River was known. In addition to sampling, other indications were analysed at the site and the incineration plant, which was a little higher, was inspected. Josu Perea clarified that the results of the sample analysis will be known in one or two weeks.

On the occasion of these events, GuraSOS has advanced a hint that can look with mistrust at the citizen’s research, in a note disseminated to the media: Ernesto Martínez de Cabredo is the director of the URA agency, which GuraSOS has denounced as the president of Zuribar S.L., a company of which is adviser Ignacio Barinaga Eguia, owner of Verter Recycling 2012. Martinez de Cabredo has for many years been the manager of the well-known company Amenabar, in addition to the construction of the plant, in public contracts.

But just as in the organizational chart of the agency URA is above Josu Perea Arandia Director General Ernesto Martínez de Cabredo, someone should also be above this ... and there are: Management Board of the Basque Water Agency, URA. Its composition is as follows:

Chairman: Iñaki Arriola López, Councillor for the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing

Vocals:

Elena Moreno Zaldibar (Vice-Minister for the Environment)
Juan Miguel Bilbao Garai (Vice-Counsellor for Finance and Financial Policy)
Elena Unzueta (Deputy Foral for Sustainability and the Natural Environment of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia)

José Antonio Galera Carrillo (Deputy Foral for Urban Development and

Who said that the PNV-PSOE regime does not love the Circular Economy? Plan, buy, make, sell and control -- all well organized in the same circle.


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