The Official Gazette of Galicia (Dog) has published this Friday the positive environmental impact statement for the Portuguese multinational Altri project, which seeks to build a cellulose factory and textile fibers in the Lucense municipality of Palas de Rei (Lugo).
From these facilities up to 400,000 tons of soluble cellulose and that, according to their detractors, equivalent to the current consumption of the entire province of Lugo will come per year. In addition, it aims to return 30 million liters of wastewater to that channel after being treated in a treatment plant. The plant, chaired by a 75 -meter fireplace, will occupy a plot of 366 hectares, and limit with the Natura Network. All this has caused protests against him.
Thus, the BNG has described the “Environmental Bomb” project. A rejection that has also extended in the PSDEG-PSOE. The promoter suspended the talks he was maintaining with the neighbors to explain its operation at the deep citizen discomfort that was breathed in the only meeting they held.
It does not exempt the promoter from obtaining all authorizations, licenses, permits or reports that are legally required for the execution and operation of the project.
The permit has been granted under a series of conditions that force the installation to use advanced technologies for water management, with a system to capture a maximum flow of 46,000 cubic meters per day, extracted from the portodemouro reservoir.
The statement details that this hydraulic collection, as well as its discharge, will travel the municipal terms of Palas de Rei (Lugo), Santiso (A Coruña) and Agodada (Pontevedra). The text forces the creation of treatment stations for wastewater generated both in construction and in exploitation.
Specifically, the resolution indicates that the wastewater generated in the production process during the exploitation of the plant, will be treated at an industrial wastewater treatment station (ETARI) with a discharge flow of 30,000 cubic meters per day.
The company talks about the creation of 500 direct and 2,000 indirect jobs. Greenfiber, a partnership of the Portuguese Altri and minority by the Spanish Smarttia, has already started the procedures with the Ministry of Industry to obtain direct aid of 250 million euros destined for the construction of the cellulose paste factory and Lyocell in Palas de Rei.
