Rafael Ribo. / Carles Ribas
The millions in compensation that has approved the central government for the fiasco of the Castor project (1,350 million euros) has irked various sectors in Catalonia. The Ombudsman , Rafael Ribo, announced yesterday that promote actions to challenge the government’s decision to Mariano Rajoy. The Government has also been raised to challenge the agreement to avoid impact on the pockets of the citizens and businesses of Catalonia, announced by the Minister for Enterprise, Felip Puig.
The Cabinet on Friday approved a decree by accepting the resignation of the promoter by the ACS Group -participada by 66% – to grant the Castor underground gas storage, located off the coast of Vinaròs (Castellón) and Alcanar (Tarragona). The compensation announced by the Executive, it will impact the gas bill for the next 30 years. Ribo described as “outrageous” decision and explained that, in the coming weeks, will meet with organizations that defend the rights of consumers, professional organizations and neighborhood movements to study legal action. The Ombudsman also examine whether there were irregularities in the award of the platform by the Governments of Rajoy and his predecessor, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
The infrastructure has been closed since September 2013 The Government paralyzed gas injection after five hundred earthquakes, many of them above magnitude 4 on the Richter scale were registered. The store activity had affected a previously unmapped fault, according to official reports concluded. The earthquakes caused the alert neighbors. Ribo, in fact, received more than 500 complaints from the Platform in Defence of the Land of Senia.
The counselor Puig, meanwhile, disagreed with that “things done wrong state the citizens end up paying. ” United Left, meanwhile, asked the European Commission to investigate the case for “ever-bono project of the European Investment Bank again be used to finance projects for the greater glory of businessmen close to the government,” said MEP Marina Albiol .
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