“Cancros pandemic”. Ferpint investigated by pollution

Company may be contaminating all water in the region, used by places for consumption and plantations. The factory, with connections to Spinumviva, keeps the silence.

“There were many cases of cancer, on a small street there were 6 people,” says a inhabitant who lives near the FERPINTA factory in Oliveira de Azeméis.

Cabinet, onions and other agricultural products are, according to some analyzes, to be contaminated by the “Open Oil River” that flows through the Carregosa area.

The contaminated water corsion flows into the Insua River, which serves the entire region. “There were often fishermen in this river,” says one inhabitant, but says they disappeared once they ceased to exist fish due to pollution of the water channel. The Insua flows, in turn, on the Antuan River, in Estarreja, which is one of the tributaries of Ria de Aveiro.

In the region, many people use well water, which say they are contaminated: “When drinking or cooking, I feel that it does not do me very well,” says one inhabitant to.

A inhabitant ordered the Ricardo Jorge Institute the pollution that falls on his roof. “The numbers are surprising: Zinc had 330 milligrams per liter“, account.

There are also those who relate stories of vineyards that have become sterile and corn fields that were covered with oil.

The report speaks of a “cancer pandemic” in the region, which a doctor hematologist That inhabits on site says they can be caused by pollution. “THE zinc It is a mineral that is excessive in our environment has very negative effects on health, notably pulmonary and cancer diseases: Pancreas cancer, lung, prostate… ”he says.

Agroa, the great factory of the zone, Ferpinta, is under investigation in at least two prosecutors. At issue are possible Environmental crimes.

The ferpint, the largest Iberian steel pipe manufacturer, is one of Spinumviva’s largest customers, the company that belonged to Luís Montenegro. He himself became president of the General Assembly of Ferpinta.

According to what reported it in another article in February, the Prime Minister had several paid positions in the ferpint universe between May 30, 2015 and October 25, 2022.

“There is already an administrative proceeding in the administrative and tax court of Aveiro, which was confirmed by the respective Attorney’s Office,” said the prosecutor Luísa Abrantes, in a order dated 10 January. Contacted by CNN, the company has postponed any interview Since the beginning of the month.