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The performance includes comprehensive regeneration of the Bay and its ecological and landscape restoration, by removal of the entire mining waste and its recovery

The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, and the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, announced today in Madrid bid for the project for the recovery of Portman Bay , a performance that, according Valcárcel, "implies a historical debt to pay off the inhabitants of the Union."

The work, which could be tendered before this summer, "is the most important project of environmental recovery of Spain," said the president of the regional government, who announced that "action will allow the total regeneration of the bay and the environmental soundness of its environment through the removal of mining waste and its recovery. "

In this regard, President Ramón Luis Valcárcel said today's announcement is "a turning point in a common project, agreed with the residents of La Union led by its mayor, Francisco Bernabé, culminating in ecological restoration and landscape Portman Bay, and allow you to return the inhabitants of this town its heritage. "

The invitation comes after the declaration of the area as a mineral resource by the Ministry of Industry, Enterprise and Innovation, which will carry out the works at no cost to the government, since the company awarded the project may leverage existing mineral resources, in particular iron ore.

The project includes dredging all existing sterile up to the seabed and the original shoreline of 1957 (date on which the extracting discharges began in full), which will revitalize an area of ​​natural and touristic value parala Region.

Stable employment and sustainable tourism

Moreover, the recovery of this enclave provides added value creating stable employment in the town of La Union, since the works include the creation of infrastructure for the promotion of sustainable tourism in the vicinity of the bay.

Specifically, the tourist project promoted by the municipality of La Union includes the implementation of a marina and fishing, as well as construction of accommodations.

Portman is in a privileged location, next to Calblanque Regional Park and surrounded by the Sierra Minera of Cartagena and La Union, declared of Cultural Interest category of historical mining site.

"This is an environment with plenty of opportunities for sustainable development, which have already materialized important performances of great tourist attractions such as the Mining Park of La Union and the new Mining Museum projects that show that learning from history itself is a guarantee for the future, "the president of the Community.

Source: CARM