Xunta demands responsibilities for the environmental damage from the dumping of pellets

The president of the get togetherAlfonso Rueda, has sent a letter to the third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, in which he requests that the Government“as soon as possible”, demand to the owner of the ship responsible for the discharge of pellets environmental responsibility derived from “possible damage to the maritime-terrestrial public domain due to pollution” resulting from the loss of a container of plastic pellets.

In the letter, the head of the Galician Executive reminds Ribera that the Galicia’s competence in matters of poured to the sea “is limited to those carried out from landand not to those carried out from the sea, given that the statutory precepts on the matter refer to the territorial sea as the place of reception of the discharges, not as their origin.”

Collected more than 3,450 kilos of pellets

The device deployed by the Xunta on the beaches and at sea to collect pellets lost by the merchant ship Toconao, on December 8, in Portuguese waters has so far made it possible to collect more than 3,450 kilos of the material, the equivalent of 138 bags.

In addition to the aforementioned pellets, since January 10, more than 9,600 kilos of other plastics comparable to urban waste have been removed from the sandy beaches.

This Saturday, the surveillance, detection and cleaning operation by land and sea was made up of almost 400 troops spread across 43 beaches in 23 Galician municipalities.

The Coast Guard also continues to do a monitoring the situation through the Pesca 1 and 2 helicopters, four large boats and two smaller patrol boats.

Furthermore, the central government has contributed a plane and a helicopter. Even so, it is possible that, due to weather conditions, air and maritime means may see their actions conditioned.

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2024-01-20 16:19:55
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