Congress on Tuesday approved the drafting of a specific law so that Mar Menor would have his own legal personality. Deputies will work on a lagoon protection tool promoted by a popular legislative initiative that has garnered more than 640,000 signatures and defended it on March 15 in the Parliamentary Commission on Environmental Transition.
In addition to Vox’s extreme right-wingers, a vote in favor of parliamentary groups – which called the project a “Bolshevik experiment” and denied that human actions were a “major problem” – backed the positions announced two weeks ago when university professor Teresa. Vicente explained to parliamentarians the need to create a regulation that would protect Europe’s most important salt lagoon. The initiative went ahead with 274 votes in favor, 53 against and 6 abstentions. According to its promoters, the legal entity makes this ecosystem a “victim and object” of a entitled entity.
A popular initiative includes an article by the law establishing mechanisms to prevent “urban, agricultural, livestock, mining or other activities damaging the lagoon.”
Mar Menor suffered ecological devastation, especially due to the intensive agricultural and livestock exploitation around it. Drainage of irrigation fertilizers and waste from pig farms is completed in lagoon waters that are filtered into the ground and into the surrounding reservoir. Illegal extraction of water and impenetrability without permission – whose brine was dumped into the environment – also planted nails in the environmental coffin of this habitat.
In this sense, the presented text includes “that actions and omissions that harm Mar Menor may immediately result in criminal prosecution, sanction and prosecution,” its promoters note. The initiative envisages three figures to ensure the protection of natural space rights: the Committee of Representatives, the Monitoring Commission and the Independent Scientific Committee.
The promoters hope that their text will not change much during the parliamentary proceedings. After passing this first stage, the proposal must undergo a process of analysis and possible changes before it has a final vote and, if necessary, approval by Cortes.
Source: El Diario
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