The Joint Attorney issued a resolution in which he asked the Department of Environment, Housing and Land Management to rescind the favorable environmental impact statement requested by Berkeley Minera to open a uranium mine. in the municipalities of Salamanca de Retortillo and Villavieja de Yeltes.
According to the press release to which the Ical Agency had access, Justice stopped this process in accordance with the legal bases included in the procedures of December 21, 2023 of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León, sitting in Valladolid, as in the judgment of January 18, 2024 of the Supreme Court.
For this reason, the Joint Prosecutor asks the Ministry to cancel the content of Order FYM/796/2013, of September 25, by which the Declaration of Favorable Environmental Impact of the Exploitation Project in the Concession of ‘Exploitation of the resources of Section D). uranium minerals, called Retortillo-Santidad No. 6,605-10, promoted by the Berkeley Mining company of Spain.
In addition, the joint prosecutor recalled that in 2021, the Nuclear Security Council issued an unfavorable technical opinion on the application for the construction of the first category radioactive installation of the nuclear fuel cycle of the nuclear concentrate plant. Retortillo uranium.
The request for an environmental impact declaration has already been rejected twice by the autonomous body, considering that the activity was not authorized on the protected land on which it was intended to be carried out and interfering with the projects with the land on which it was planned. The SA-322 motorway runs.
