Burgos (EFE) Spain, at the gates of the electoral appointment of next July 23.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition (Miteco) has authorized this dismantling, in a project that covers until 2033, with a budget of 475 million euros and in which up to 350 people are expected to work simultaneously.
The ministerial order, published this Monday by the Official State Gazette, for the dismantling also authorizes the transfer of ownership of the Nuclenor facility to Enresa, something that will happen in the coming days so that the works on the ground can begin, they point out. from the Miteco in a statement.
Ribera: “Garoña is an example of what should not happen again”
Garoña is “an example of what should not happen again,” said Teresa Ribera, Minister for the Ecological Transition, at the end of an informative breakfast this morning in Madrid by the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, on the dismantling of the said center.
“Today a step forward is taken in this orderly closure process with total “responsibility, with guarantees for the population and with economic alternatives”, after having passed the environmental evaluation of the safe dismantling process and without risk to anyone, has observed the minister.
García-Gallardo vice president of CyL (Vox): “we will rebuild everything that is demolished”
One of the first reactions to this announcement has been that of the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo (Vox), who in a tweet has criticized that the central government “accelerate” the dismantling “in view of the possibility of a government made up of Vox” and has announced that “they will rebuild everything they tear down”.
García-Gallardo recalled that PP and PSOE “promoted” the closure of the Burgos facility, which has been disconnected from the electricity grid since December 2012, although its final end was agreed in 2017.
The Minister of Industry (Vox) defends energy independence against “ideological climate fanaticism”.
From his own party, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment of Castilla y León, Mariano Veganzones, has defended energy independence and the reindustrialization of the community against decisions resulting from “ideological climate fanaticism” such as the dismantling of the Santa Maria de Garona.
In his opinion, it is a decision “the result of the bipartisan era”, he told EFE Veganzones, for whom “Castilla y León has sufficient resources that can be used to generate nuclear energy safely and cheaply.” ”.
“Hasty and inadequate” decision for the Board
As for the regional government, which is made up of PP and Vox, they have argued that the decision to close the Santa María de Garoña (Burgos) nuclear power plant was taken in a “hasty and inadequate” manner and without having a just transition plan. specific to the area of influence.
“It is an administrative decision”, sources from the regional government have told EFE, who have stressed that it was already “transferred at the time that they did not agree with the closure of Garoña”, a decision that was “business and political”, since It was taken by the companies that owned it, but in a specific political context.
The PSOE guarantees ten years of investment and employment
For its part, the PSOE has guaranteed ten years of investment and job creation in the region of Las Merindades (Burgos) before the start of the dismantling, which will begin with the 475 million investment announced by MITECO and the publication of the first offers. of employment.
The deputy secretary general of the PSOE of Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, has made progress on a visit to Las Merindades in Burgos that the first job offers for the “imminent hiring of personnel” will begin to be launched in order to start the dismantling process .
The PP describes it as a “paradigm of teasing”
As for the PP, it has criticized the “fireworks” of the Government of Pedro Sánchez when communicating the authorization to start the dismantling of the Santa María de Garoña nuclear power plant in the middle of the electoral campaign and has recalled that the closure of the Burgos plant is “the paradigm of the jokes of the PSOE”.
The deputy spokesperson for the PP in the Castilla y León Parliament, and candidate for the Congress of Deputies for Burgos, Ángel Ibáñez, recalled that the news “was already known” but that it arrives “delayed”, “motivated by the hasty decision that at the time it was taken by the socialist government for the ideological closure” of the nuclear plant.
The coordinator of Alianza Verde: it is the way to the end of the nuclear
For his part, the coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uralde, has assured that the dismantling “marks the path to the end of nuclear energy”.
“It is a logical decision. It marks without a doubt the beginning of the end of nuclear energy in our country. It is the dismantling of a still small plant but it is the first step. We hope that it can be carried out without incident and that the area can recover,” he confided in a note. EFE
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