The government team presented for debate in Parliament a motion to declare the municipality free fracking Cehegín.
At the meeting held on Friday, July 31, it was approved with votes in favor and Cehegín Citizens for Change, who presented several amendments to enrich the motion, but with the votes against the Popular Party.
Councilman Industry, Fancisco Chico, was commissioned in the government team PSOE to defend this motion with the other political groups, reaching confrontation with the Municipal People's Party spokesman, Maria Dolores Carrasco, because from the popular ranks, according Socialist spokesman account, "still in its approach in favor of this dangerous gas extraction technique, which has a high risk of contamination of underground aquifers and the atmosphere."
The popular mayor, meanwhile, tried to justify his vote against establishing that "are not performing these surveys still and when they are to be made, they ask what is it with all the guarantees".
In this statement, the Socialist Francisco Chico said the PP to "what is being debated here today is whether or not we want fracking, whether we are for or against this technique and if we threaten groundwater and environmental wealth Cehegín "and appealing directly to Carrasco, Chico said that" at the Socialist government's commitment to renewable energies that, like it or not, will be the energy sources of the future and his party, the PP, has loaded from the government of the nation, making its commitment to the technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking", which can lead to many dangers, that not even the European Union is able to legislate. "
In short and as the motion passed last night by PSOE, and Cehegín Citizens for Change is now Cehegín declared free municipality of fracking.
Since the socialist government suggest that, in this way, they have managed to push through a proposal that presented in the previous legislature and was lying by the votes against the absolute majority of the Popular Party, and apostillan to thereby meet other of the points of his election program.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín