If you are thinking in coming to visit or settling in
Vinaròs (Costa del Azahar, Spain) or you have in mind to buy
or build an apartment or tourist infrastructure in its surrounding
area (Baix Maestrat in Comunidad Valenciana or Montsia in Catalonia),
you must be aware of the risk that you are going to take. This region
will be affected by a process of industrialization that will involve
an irreversible damage for the environment, transforming the peaceful
and welcoming region that you know into a threat for human health
and safety.
The City Hall of Vinaròs has accepted the development
of a project for natural gas storage (CASTOR PROJECT) in front of
the coast and the installation of a plant for the process of the gas
inside its municipality. The reservoir will entail a constant risk
of explosion which could surpass the destroying power of Hiroshima
nuclear bomb. Additionally, huge emissions of dangerous gases as well
as an important modification of the landscape of the region will be
generated by the processing plant. The fact that local and state authorities
disregard the environmental effects of this project will hopelessly
exacerbate its negative effects.
The Castor Project not only will represent the construction
and exploitation of one of the biggest reservoirs of natural gas in
Europe. Simultaneously, a new industrial zone will be promoted as
a compensation for the municipal area for the ecological damage and
social confrontation that such a project will represent. This industrial
zone will probably lodge factories related to gas and energy sectors,
as thermal power station as well as other industries highly hazardous
for environment and humans, increasing by this mean the harm to the
region. If all this was not enough, the Ministry of Industry has authorized
the installation of wind turbines in front of Vinaròs coast.
All these projects will demand the creation of High
Voltage towers across the territory and the development of new energy
related industries. As a result of it, the coastal zones of Alcanar,
Vinaròs, Benicarló and Peñíscola as well
as other surrounding villages as Ulldecona, Sant Jordi, Sant Rafel
del Riu, La Sènia... will lost their characteristic quality
of life by progressive ecological deterioration.
Therefore, the information present above should be taken
into consideration by anyone willing to visit or settle in the territory
where this industrial project will be developed.
