The PP of the Region of Murcia took note of the tragedy in Valencia due to DANA and advanced to the Regional Assembly, during the plenary session held this Tuesday, a motion where asks the Spanish government to finance the construction of the northern collector to avoid flooding in this area of the capital of Segura.
“The construction of the western storm interceptor collector in the city of Murcia is a vital infrastructure and of extreme necessity for the capital and its inhabitants, which must be undertaken urgently, since it would largely avoid the misfortunes and serious material damage caused by the main avenues”, as recalled by the popular deputy Jesús Cano .
The Popular Party’s initiative only met with abstention from Podemos. “The tragic and painful example of Valencia should help us to act before that we must regret greater evils, but the Sánchez government keeps these infrastructures in Teresa Ribera’s drawer”, as Cano denounced.
The popular parliamentarian recalled that this collector for the western zone of the capital of Segura It has been drawn up and approved technically and environmentally since 2018, by the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura.but the Ministry of Ecological Transition “continues to justify its cessation in carrying out cost-benefit studies and in a report from the Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works which proposes, among other things, to supplement the infrastructures with rolling dams”.
The call for tenders for This infrastructure has been paralyzed for six yearsdespite the fact that the PP “always” presents amendments to the general state budgets so that the northern collector of Murcia is built. ““This action cannot and must not be further delayed,” just as Jesús Cano insisted. “Yesi Pedro Sánchez declared that “climate change kills”: what has he done in the six years he has been in Moncloa to avoid it?
