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The last September by the Plenary Council was approved unanimously by all local groups, a joint motion in which the council agreed to "express rejection of the City of Cieza the practice of fracking in the area of ​​influence of groundwater supplying the town of Cieza, both for human consumption and agriculture, as well as the geological faults affecting our territory, under guidelines published by the European Parliament. "

José Eduardo Illueca Councilman IU-Greens in the city of Cieza, understands that "the Copernican revolution in the position of the Popular Party in Cieza and other municipalities, and the fact that representatives of the agricultural sector have begun to raise with clearly their voice against this nonsense to go ahead of fracking, has opened a new stage in the struggle against its development in the Segura River Basin. "

As Illueca recalls, "our group was the one who took the initiative to bring back to Parliament a proposal which had been rejected twice, and the success of this third attempt shows that the scene of the fight has changed";

however, "we must take new steps, new actions, spread opposition to these practices and to make the shift position does not remain in the affected municipalities but involving the regional parliament and government autonomy."

Not to forget, in the opinion of this council, "that authorizations for prospecting remain in force and continue to work on, and that the People's Party in the regional and national levels continues to support its development."

Therefore, "the society can not be stopped, nor in terms of social movement or the institutional activity."

In this line, Illueca notes that "we have a set structure, the Platform in Defence of the River Segura, which proved useful in the battle against the 'piping' flow of the river, which are represented in political parties, associations environmentalists and the agricultural sector as a whole. "

It is therefore a very appropriate forum "to share decisions and agree on immediate action regarding the use of the techniques of fracking for search and extraction of gas in our environment, to strengthen and make even more visible the opposition about projects with a negative and detrimental effect in the highest degree to the river, to ecosystems and agriculture taking place in the area. "

Therefore, Illueca complained to the Mayor of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, who is chairing the Platform, "in order to convene immediately a meeting of the same where the problems associated with fracking in the basin of the River Segura is analyzed and agreements for joint and coordinated action by all actors have a say in this area "is taken.

Source: IU-verdes Cieza