Some 3,000 people have gathered at the demonstration in the organizers’ calculations. People from various points in Gipuzkoa who have had to overcome a number of obstacles to reach the Kursaal building: The San Sebastian Marathon was held and access to the interior of the city has been very difficult for many, as the buses circulating in the nearby areas interrupted their service very far from the centre and, if it were not enough, Renfe has suspended its railway service during these days along the whole route between Andoain and Irún.

Faced with the difficulties, thousands of citizens have travelled from Kursaal to Sagües to return from there to the starting point, following a banner claiming the need to “stop” the Zubieta incinerator in the hands of those responsible for AnclSOS. At the final conference, the organization has asked the authorities, in view of the failures and defects of the plant to ensure public health and the environment, to stop the incinerator. And they have publicly requested an appointment to discuss this matter with Gipuzkoa's Deputy General, Markel Olano.

In his speech, SOS denounced that “when construction of the incinerator began in 2016, the Provincial Council and the Basque Government denied citizens the right to participate and dialogue. In the strength of power they felt strong, invincible, and they wanted to make an exhibition of pride. (…) They made the incinerator an example of power. Technological totem, perfect, modern, safe... Just two years, they've been enough to see the giant's feet of mud."

The deficiencies that the incinerator has already demonstrated are listed below. Due to the malfunctioning of the light generation plant with the heat of combustion, the incinerator does not value waste. They're constantly turning off and turning on, and they've been done 86 times in a facility that would need three on a year, right now when it generates the largest pollution. The Zubieta incinerator has not approved the furnaces, from the beginning they are wrong “so they have filled the area with dioxin”.

The watertight system that was supposed to ensure the leakage of the incinerator's dirty water has also failed in the incinerator, Ancuss has continued to broadcast its poisons to Arkaitzerreka, from where it was sent to the sea by Oria. This water poisoning is already being studied in two courts in San Sebastian, but their officials “now want to eliminate this toxic spill. How? Pumping the sanitation network of Añarbe and from there passing through Monpas to the beach of La Zurriola”. They also mention the high degree of poisoning that the ToxiWatch Foundation has found in the vicinity of the incinerator: “ToxiWatch has detected here for two years the increase in dioxin and other toxic levels, exceeding those recorded in any other incinerator.”

In addition to the demands of the incinerator and the MEP, Markel Olano, all the political parties in Ancín SOS have also been mentioned: “We want to make our strongest appeal to political parties. Elections are coming. The Zubieta incinerator must be on the agenda. It is one of the most disturbing environmental problems of Gipuzkoa”.

The Zubieta incinerator has reappeared strongly in the Guipuzkoan political landscape. The Incineration Control Movement released last week reports of indications found so far by ToxiWatch in the monitoring of pollutants from the Zubieta incinerator, as well as warnings issued by IDOM and SGS companies on behalf of the GHK itself. The leaders of the Basque Government and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa have been forced to deal with them.

The Environment Deputy of Gipuzkoa and the President of the GHK, José Ignacio Asensio, referred to the media the existence of lack of control and contamination in Zubieta. In ToxiWatch's report he tells Berria that "political manipulation using groups such as SOS Anchors, EH Bildu" is "the misrepresentation of reality with lies" to "terrorize the citizenry." Moreover, "94% of the limits imposed by European legislation have remained below in 2021," he notes with regard to the large quantities of dioxins found around the incineration plant. He adds that these data are measured "every day" and that "Biodonostia also investigates".

The Basque Government, the Minister for Industry and the Environment, Arantza Tapia, has had to answer questions put by the incinerator in Parliament. Asked by Miren Gorrotxategi Elkarrekin Podemos, a IU parliamentarian, Tapia has recognised in the answer that the incinerator does not have automatic systems that prevent the furnace from continuing to release waste when the concentration of particles is higher than allowed (150mg/Nm3). According to the information published by Naiz.eus, Tapia has come in response to what the GHK said at the time: "As far as air emissions are concerned, there is no control that acts automatically on combustion."