Toxic spill bill

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The PP plan talks of ‘priority investments’ for sanitation, supply, and flood control, as well as ‘guaranteeing’ water needed for irrigation.

The proposal also refers to a plan to modernise the country’s infrastructures and to use resources to minimize flood and drought risks.

Over flooding the manifesto mentions the ‘prioritisation of restoring riverbeds, especially urban ones, which allow increasing the protection of people, property and the environment’.

THE junta is suing mining company Boliden for €90 over the 1988 toxic spill that contaminated the wetlands in Andalucia’s Doñana National Park.

The disaster occurred when a wastewater reserve pool burst at Boliden’s mine in the city of Aznalcollar. More than five million cubic metres of heavy metals escaped into the river, devastating the aquatic life. The junta spent millions on the clean up in the national park, although Boliden claims that it voluntarily supported the clean up, spending €80 million of its own cash. The case is underway after failing to go through in 2001 when a Seville court ruled that Boliden was not criminally responsible.