The counselor explains that the Basque government took on the initial maintenance tasks, but that it was later up to the trustee of Verter Recycling to carry them out and that he did not. “We transferred three requirements and we followed the subject closely,” he stressed.
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The Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque Government, Arantxa Tapiaadmitted that the country of the Zaldibar landfill (Bizkaia), which collapsed in February 2020, “is at the lowest level of stability“, although he has qualified that he is nevertheless “stable” and that is why he “at the moment” there is no risk of collapse. “That in case of torrential rain something can move? Like in any mountain, but at the moment it is stable,” he added.
The counselor has been interviewed about Euskadi Irratia’s “Faktoria” program after knowing the result of a report of the company Geologia y Geotecnia Larrea – has been published by the newspapers nose And BERRY—, commissioned by the Ministry itself, on the current situation of the landfill. According to the study, the grounds are there “serious environmental risks”, even greater than when the catastrophe happened. As Tapia explained, the Basque government undertook “first urgent work” to stabilize the ground and proceed with the provisional sealing. After that, it was up to the bankruptcy trustee of Verter Recycling to pay the debt for these works, as well as to carry out maintenance work, which in any case was not carried out “with what little money was left”. “The responsibility lies with the administrator,” he said.
However, he took care of that the Basque government has done “a lot of things”. in this case: “We have sent the reports, carried out the various inspections, we have transferred up to three requirements to the bankruptcy trustee… A close follow-up has been done on the matter”.
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Source: EITB
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