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Opposition to Mallorca incinerator plans
Government plan to make Mallorca "dump of Europe" met with anger
There has been unanimous condemnation from the opposition party and environmental groups to the Balearic Government's (PP) announcement yesterday that the law would be changed to allow waste from other European countries to be disposed of at the Son Reus incinerator in Mallorca.
The PP had planned to add an amendment to the bill on urgent measures for economic activation that would allow them to receive waste that has been previously treated from other European countries for incineration at the Son Reus plant. The plan was that once approved by the European Union the bill would mean that the annual cost paid by Mallorcans for waste disposal would be frozen in 2013 and lowered in 2014.
Consell sources estimated that importing waste by boat from other countries and incinerating it here in Mallorca would generate 350 jobs and could bring in 14million Euros a year without damaging the environment.
But opposition has claimed that the move will make Mallorca "the dump of Europe" and the spokesperson from the Nationalists Joan Font said that "The PP puts forward the interests of their buddies to the detriment of the citizens of Mallorca". Further condemnation came from the PSIB-concil spokesperson Jaume Garau who described the move as "environmental and economic suicide."
