The history of the project biomass plant recently celebrated its tenth birthday.
Indeed, as recalled José Eduardo Illueca Councilman IU-Greens, "in February made 10 years after the first announcement of the project to the location of a biomass plant in Cieza, and I continued without clear evidence that it can become a reality in the reasonable period of time or that it can meet the expectations of job creation so often proclaimed with great fanfare by the Popular Party, which has spoken several times of more than 300 permanent jobs and another 1000 linked to the construction of the facility. "
Doing a bit of project history, Illueca remembers "the first agreement with the Agency for Energy Management in the Region of Murcia (ARGEM) for the collection and storage of biomass was signed in late 2005, and in September 2006 a second agreement where the foundations for the construction of a plant for generating electricity from wood waste became "was signed.
Since then and over several years, "have happened ads by local politicians and regional leaders, without evidence of practical embodiment would see anywhere, so more than once denounced it was an episode over the 'sale of smoke' that have been so prone equipment Antonio Tamayo, who ruled usually more in the future than in the present. "
However, everything seemed to change in 2010, coinciding with the presence of ciezano ARGEM address Teodoro Garcia, currently a deputy in Parliament, "there was then, at the request of the assignment ARGEM 40,000 m2 of land with municipal to the treatment plant for the construction of this plant, capable of generating electrical energy to supply 25,000 homes from waste biomass from pruning of fruit trees and mountain. "
In October 2010 a "tripartite agreement between the Autonomous Community, the City of Cieza and Dalkia, a major multinational in the sector of renewable energy was signed."
By the Minister of the Presidency, Manuel Campos, and municipal officials themselves, was announced in early 2012 the environmental processing of the project for the installation of a biomass plant in Cieza whose owner would be the company Dalkia; Illueca remember that " then do not skimp on congratulations and self-indulgence, ensuring that the construction of the plant, with an investment of 60 million euros, would generate more than a thousand jobs and that within two years and would be serving, news we get then with caution, because we know them, but also with hope, because we have always argued that the proposed biomass plant is of strategic interest to the town, for its potential in terms of economic revitalization and job creation from course, but also for environmental values ​​involved and be a sustainable solution for garden waste. "
The joy was short-lived, because in the summer of the same year the multinational announced the postponement "undated" what amounts to a withdrawal of investment announced, leaving both sidetrack agreements with the Community and with the city of Cieza .
On this, as Illueca complaint, "there was no press conferences or public demonstrations by our rulers, and since then the references to the project have been scarce, if not nil."
Thus, in view Illueca, "it seems that this is a new chapter in this never-ending story of smoke permanent sale, continuous failures and unstoppable towards complete degradation of the municipality in which it has become the government of Antonio Tamayo advance since 2003. "
However, in a matter of this nature, "we want to be constructive even though the facts invite little of this, and so will raise an interpellation in Parliament that the government team clearly informed the public about the situation of this project and the land that is leased to its effects, as well as the steps to be take to ensure that the biomass plant a reality as soon as possible for our town. "
Source: IU-verdes Cieza