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Just one day after the Shelf "Segura Basin Royalty Fracking" has claimed an institutional front of city councils across the region, and particularly of those who administer the municipalities of Cuenca del Segura, a political group of IU Cieza-Green wanted to express "a resounding and unqualified support to this initiative and our satisfaction with the progress regarding disclosure of risks of fracking and awareness against its use are being reached, in the whole State and also in the region of Murcia. "
It has done so by the mouth of his councilor José Eduardo Illueca, who praised "the very creditable work being done by the Platform 'Segura Basin Royalty Fracking' and begins to bear fruit, because every time there Most people who know the subject and is sensitive to it, not only in social settings, or more likely citizens but also among farmers, a sector that is earned or yes to the opposition against fracking in the region of Murcia ".
Fracking "involves a risk of unaffordable water pollution, both underground and surface, which threatens the health of the population but also and not least, a mortgage principal economic resource that we have, our agriculture, not to mention the seismic risk that these techniques generate in areas of significant seismic activity as we live. "
At the institutional level, Illueca recalls that IU-Greens have already raised various initiatives in the city of Cieza.
Thus, "in a very initial stage and proposed statement of Cieza as 'free municipality of fracking' and, later, a referendum under the Law of the Local System so that citizens could we rule, after a period of information and public debate. "
None of these proposals came forward "because the Popular Party has clearly aligned Cieza, from the beginning, with the positions of the national and regional governments, in an attitude of uncritical partisan ism".
However, this council understands that circumstances are changing, "especially for growing concern within the agricultural sector, which are a clear example of recent statements by regulatory boards designations of origin of Jumilla and Yecla."
To this council, "is very important, and I think it teaches the way to go, the fact that recently the city of Yecla has taken a 180 degree turn to his former position, prone to allow surveys to siding of its farmers and the general public, announcing that it will correct ".
Currently there are four granted prospecting permits affecting the region and a fifth is being processed and will be, in all probability adopted.
Illueca matches the platform in its assessment that "against the unconditional support from the national and regional executives lends fracking, is indispensable in front of local authorities in the affected areas, including the greatest number of municipalities and can act as an institutional counterweight on one side, and as a catalyst for public debate, promoting social participation and vehicle for the claim. "
For the eco-socialist mayor, "the role of councils as representatives corporations are citizens, is to defend the interests of their neighbors and promote local development, and, in our opinion, this function fully justify defending certain positions even against partisan guidelines in other territorial levels. "
Therefore, "from IU-Greens pledge publicly, so unconditional, to seek a Pact councils against fracking and work from Cieza, therefore, do not rule therefore raise any motion coming in this line, but always within the framework of coordinated actions that you can define the platform, and, of course, to the extent that we can achieve governance responsibilities after the municipal elections will devote all our efforts to oppose fracking in the development of our region. "
Source: IU-verdes Cieza
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