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The
Port of Alicante is a seaport in
Alicante, Spain on the Mediterranean
Sea used for commercial and
passenger traffic. The port is
administered by the Port Authority
of Alicante.
On 14
November 2007, two Spanish MPs
tabled a series of questions to the
Spanish Congreso (Parliament)
regarding the projects and the aim
to convert Alicante por tinto an
industrial estate, and requested the
Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero, to clarify the
position of his government. On 23
November 2007, the residents’
Platform in Defence of the Port,
together with 7 other neighbourhood
and local citizens’ organisations
representing over 20, 000 households
in the city, visited to the Register
of Alicante City Council (‘Ayuntamiento’)
and filed more than 10,000
signatures against making the Port
extension into an industrial estate
so close to residencial
neighbourhoods, as well as copies of
more than 2,500 objections to the
cement projects for the 17 towering
silos and 3 cement factories. The
signatories criticized the Port for
“carrying out the planning for its
development and growth as if it were
a private enterprise governed only
by the profit motive, and seeking
loopholes or ways in which not to
comply with the law in force”. For
this reason, they alleged that the
Port of Alicante had caused a
“frontal collision with fundamental
citizens’ rights, such as to right
to health and safety”. They noted
that “the only hope for Alicante at
an institutional level lies with
Alicante City Council, who should do
all in their power to defend the
rights of the citizen in Alicante.
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