Portal del Clot Council building to
open at last - The municipal building near the Helpdesk Citizen’s Advice Office and underground car park
at Xàbia’s Portal del Clot will finally
open after six years of sitting empty and unused on Monday February
29th. It will house the local police,
Works and Urban development department and Services and the Environment. 1000 square metres of the
underground car park will be modified for storage of the municipal archive. The personnel will gradually move in over the following days.
From: La Marina Plaza
More CO2 emissions in Spain 2015
The Observatory of Sustainability
(Observatorio de Sostenibilidad an
independent and non-profit orgnisation made up of ecologists, engineers,
economists, geographers and sociologists, issued a report on climate
change in Spain for 2015. The study
indicates that Spain has continued to
increase emissions of greenhouse gases over the last year, while all neighboring countries have had marked
reductions in their emissions. This
increase is ascribed to the increase in
coal for electricity generation, which
has grown nearly 20%, consumption
of petroleum products, around 2%,
and the stagnation of consumption of
natural gas. From: Ecoticias
Only 16.6% of Marina Alta garbage is recycled - The Marina Alta
region is above the average in the
amount of waste generated per capita
(1.49kg per day, as oppose to 1.40kg
for the Comunidad as a whole), and
less than 20% is separated for recycling.
The MARE Consortium (http://
www.consorcimare.es/) is pushing
for better public awareness and use of
recycling points and the completion
of a network of municipal ecoparcs
and improving municipal facilities:
“More than 427,000 inhabitants; 52
municipalities; we treat more than
215,000 tons of garbage every year”
(Las Marinas and Campello) From:
La Marina Plaza
Xàbia Police catch 2 fish poachers
Xàbia police surprised two poachers who had 30 kilos of fish between
them in the area of Cala Blanca at
8.00am last Thursday. The Poachers, in diving gear had flashlights and
spear fishing harpoons, but the fish
were not injured and it is suspected
that they had been stolen from some
trammel nets set by professional fishermen some 200m from the coast. The
divers had no fishing licenses, they
gear has been confiscated and legal
proceedings initiated. In accordance
with the law, the fish has been handed
to a non-profit making organisation,
namely the Red Cross, which distibuted the fish to seven needy families
in the area. From: LaMarinaPlaza
all about take a look at the You Tube
clip: https://youtu.be/M2qiP8suvgY)